Example sentences of "[was/were] not for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 2 | The children And that were n't for a day , for a night , it were for weeks and weeks on end . |
| 3 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 4 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 5 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 6 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 7 | If it was n't for a bit of aggression , he would n't be where he is now . |
| 8 | ‘ Thought it was n't for a woman , etc . |
| 9 | he 's a little , aye I know but he 's , yeah I know but it was n't for a week was it ? |