Example sentences of "be not [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not saving it for the Tour de France . |
| 2 | I am not proposing him for Moderator , but I am pressing his case . |
| 3 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 4 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 5 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 6 | I mean we 're not doing it for our own good . |
| 7 | You 're not doing it for me , you 're doing it for her . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not asking you for a penny . ’ |
| 9 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 10 | You never talk about anything interesting anyway so I 'm not paying you for it . |
| 11 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 12 | I 'm not blaming you for what happened , but — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for you , Pierre . |
| 15 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 16 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for you , I 'm doing if for your grandmother . |
| 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 | I 'm not doing it for stardom . |
| 21 | Well I 'm not doing it for her , she can do it herself . |
| 22 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 23 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 24 | And he told me , he told me , I 've got it written on the back of me hand I thought it was brilliant that , I thought little do you know what I 'm gon na use that for he never phoned me for a , he 's not phoned me for |
| 25 | Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . |
| 26 | I mean , he 's not doing it for money ? ’ |
| 27 | Make sure she 's not marrying you for your money . ’ |
| 28 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |