Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] anything [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 . ’
  Next page