Example sentences of "not [verb] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not using it for some |
| 2 | ‘ I did not bring it for that purpose , ’ said Andrus hoarsely . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 4 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
| 5 | We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A member of one local authority in England — I will not name it for obvious reasons — told me that the police in that area have said that following up poll tax debts and warrants is not a high priority . |
| 11 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |