Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 2 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 3 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |
| 4 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 5 | And as the salon in Susan 's home town of Bristol was part of a reputable chain , she did n't for a moment expect any problems . |
| 6 | Did n't for a moment think you 'd want them out of your sight . |
| 7 | As I had grown some six inches since he had last seen me , I did n't for a moment believe that his recognition was unprompted . |
| 8 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 9 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 10 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 11 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 12 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 13 | She was different , after all , he decided , in her hat , and with the grained leather gloves neatly folded , and Gaily had n't for a moment the wit to see this , prepared self as the false one and her accidental self , in an older coat and head-scarf , of Saturday night , the true one . |