Example sentences of "not for [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 2 | Not for them the worries of an investigative Panorama or Insight team of reporters . |
| 3 | Not for them the comfortable life ; they might get ideas above their station , which was to devote themselves to hard labour and be grateful for small mercies . |
| 4 | Not for them the purposeless Irish custom of the kick upfield which might , with a bit of luck , blunder into touch and ‘ everything can stop for tea ’ . |
| 5 | Not for them the traditional lunchtime saunter down to the pub , then off to the match with their mates . |
| 6 | Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens , television and sleeping accommodation . |
| 7 | Not for them the sudden exhilaration of Crick and Watson on discovering the structure of DNA ( a rare thrill , even in the natural sciences ) . |
| 8 | They were temporary , not permanent , migrants : not for them the single journey to a new land . |
| 9 | Not for them the buoyancy , cost-effectiveness , fairness and progressiveness that ’ Fair Rates ’ offers to the British people . |
| 10 | Not for them the comprehensibility or even the logic spelt out by the Prime Minister shortly after his election as leader of the Conservative party when he rightly said that there was something wrong with a tax that resulted in 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Not for them the Pimms and champagne . |
| 12 | Not for him the carefully charted route to the top . |
| 13 | Not for him the Baden-Powell approach of rubbing two Boy Scouts together ; he liberally douses the twigs with paraffin and throws in a match . |
| 14 | Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland . |
| 15 | Not for him the acrobatics that fiction attributes to the American rich . |
| 16 | Not for him the pleasures or the relief of omnipotence ! |
| 17 | Not for him the emancipation and the exultation and the divinity of creative work ! |
| 18 | Not for him the intricate miracles of Gothic architecture . |
| 19 | Not for him the life of a squire ; not for him rain-swept , windswept Mayo with its barren mountains and bogs . |
| 20 | Not for him the slightly raucous ribaldry with which most of the chaps used to greet us , no slaps on the rear or tweaking of curls , or addressing us as ‘ darling ’ or ‘ my love ’ . |
| 21 | Not for him the blind search for a nipple , no free of the womb' spasms to jerk his limbs ; he was happy to be apart , independent , an entity unto himself . |
| 22 | Not for him the path of apprenticeship followed by his two younger brothers — at least , not quite . |
| 23 | Not for him the satellites , computers and massive back-up team the Michael Fishes , Suzanne Charltons and Alex Hills of TV depend upon for their forecasts . |
| 24 | Not for him the good old days of the 1960s , when the Mirror — social conscience and all — reigned supreme and Pilger was churning out his hard-hitting reports . |
| 25 | Not for him the limited intellectual life of some academics , who spend their careers developing minor lines of enquiry from their doctoral theses and seldom move far from the safety of their chosen subject . |
| 26 | Not for him the method of modelling in clay and translating the result into other materials by mechanical means . |
| 27 | Not for him the inane bromides of lesser managers ; outspoken wit and intelligence were the hallmark of his post-match reflections . |
| 28 | Not for him the privations of the secret outdoor life ; he stalked the rich carpets of the Ainsworth home like a king and the ornate collar he always wore added something more to his presence . |
| 29 | Not for him the cynical moralities of Pauson , who presented humanity worse than it is , or the fidelity of the painter Dionysus to observable particularity : he was beauty 's slave , and beauty is made , he knew , not found . |
| 30 | Not for him the glitzy party animal networking of the Beverly Hills A-list . |