Example sentences of "[not/n't] for [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 2 | Not for them the Pimms and champagne . |
| 3 | Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens , television and sleeping accommodation . |
| 4 | Not for them the buoyancy , cost-effectiveness , fairness and progressiveness that ’ Fair Rates ’ offers to the British people . |
| 5 | Not for them the worries of an investigative Panorama or Insight team of reporters . |
| 6 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
| 7 | Not for him the boulevards of Hollywood , nor the slender , sultry looks of Renaissance Screen Man . |
| 8 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 9 | Not for him the satellites , computers and massive back-up team the Michael Fishes , Suzanne Charltons and Alex Hills of TV depend upon for their forecasts . |
| 10 | Not for him the Baden-Powell approach of rubbing two Boy Scouts together ; he liberally douses the twigs with paraffin and throws in a match . |
| 11 | Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . |
| 12 | Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland . |
| 13 | Not for him the pleasures or the relief of omnipotence ! |
| 14 | Not for him the privations of the secret outdoor life ; he stalked the rich carpets of the Ainsworth home like a king and the ornate collar he always wore added something more to his presence . |
| 15 | Not for him the histrionics which always seemed to accompany a Mansell win last year . |
| 16 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 17 | Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work ! |
| 18 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 19 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |
| 20 | Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it . |
| 21 | Not for her the shops of the Boulevard or Bond Street . |
| 22 | NOT for her the stay-at-home , cookie-making image as a wife . |
| 23 | Not for me the pursuit of excellence on the playing fields of England . |
| 24 | ‘ Ask not for whom the box-office till rings : it rings for all when the missing millions creep out of their burrows to find enchantment waiting for them . ’ |
| 25 | Not for us the tourist sledge of the one- or two-day package visitor , a short contraption , more tea tray than means of transport . |