Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] anything [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He knew he was clever but there was just a slim chance Mr Crangle had found a way to get him , and he did n't want him caught , not for anything in the world . |
2 | It was because not for anything in the world would she have disturbed him and missed this spectacle . |
3 | And you 're actually not on anything at the moment are you ? |
4 | Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale . |
5 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
6 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |
7 | I 'm interested , but not at anything like the price . ’ |