Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not using it for some |
| 2 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 3 | ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely . |
| 4 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 5 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 6 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 7 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 8 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 9 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 11 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 12 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 13 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 14 | We do not remember them for all the facts which they rammed into our heads , nor for praise or punishment , but for the way that they seemed to recognize our inner selves , and spoke to our essence . |
| 15 | Now the angels will not bless us for another year . ’ |
| 16 | Not getting me for any extra hours that 's a certain fact |
| 17 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 18 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
| 19 | I said no , I 'm not , I 'm not doing it for that reason I said I 'm trying to you know thought to myself we 'll give them something back . |
| 20 | She was jealous that I was to bear her husband 's son — I could not hate her for that . |
| 21 | Surely he did not blame her for this ? |
| 22 | He believed she did not love him because he was like his father but he could not blame her for this because he knew he was unlovable . |
| 23 | In a sense one can not blame them for that , but we in the SSPCA feel that it would be much better if some of those payments from the Government came in the form of food tokens which could be redeemed when farmers purchased feeding stocks . ’ |
| 24 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 25 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
| 26 | ‘ You can not blame me for that . |
| 27 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 28 | This man would blow up a city without five seconds ' compunction — and she did not criticise him for that — but he would insist on good whisky , eat in good restaurants , like to travel first-class . |
| 29 | There is nothing more annoying to a journalist who is working on a story than to be told that the PRO will ring back with the relevant numbers and then not to get them for another two or three days . |
| 30 | There was a loud noise and my leg would not support me for several weeks . |