Example sentences of "[not/n't] for the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 If I do n't deliver the goods , I do n't get any money , In business you get paid for results , not for the hours you put in . ’
2 She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose .
3 Yes , of course I am disgruntled , but not for the reasons you may adduce .
4 Not for the reasons you imagine , Sarella . ’
5 After a divorce there is a terrible sense of loneliness — not for the person you married but just being on your own .
6 If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis .
7 ‘ But not for the reason you think .
8 Oh , yes , thought Juliet , I 'm worried , but not for the reason you think .
9 She hesitated , but not for the reason he imagined .
10 She did need rescuing , though not for the reason he imagined .
11 Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints .
12 and it 's , no but here it 's only the holidays that really matter , if it was n't for the holidays I really would n't bother because here it really is so plotted out is n't it ?
13 yeah , completely , and erm and if it was n't for the holidays I 'd really think oh for God 's sake , bugger this , you know , I ca n't be bothered .
14 If it were n't for the bit I earn I daresay me and my bairns would be in Dudley House an' all .
15 Indeed , if it was n't for the warning we found in his pouch , we would have assumed it was a simple accident . ’
16 it was n't for the Dalesman it was for er
17 I would n't for the world he should miscarry . ’
18 They say that if you , if it was n't for the shooting we would n't have any grouse or pheasants cos they would n't be preserved .
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