Example sentences of "for [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution . |
| 2 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 3 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 4 | For I do not think they will talk to me , not without encouragement . |
| 5 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 6 | One of them — a little old-fashioned perhaps , for I do not see many people doing it nowadays — is to walk around it guide-book in hand , best of all with one of those old Murray 's Handbooks for Travellers , the most catholic , the most informative , the most solid guide-books ever written in this country ; still well worth buying though the last one came out nearly fifty years ago and one must hunt for them with increasing difficulty in the second-hand bookshops . |
| 7 | ( Note here that I am doing my best to avoid speaking of conventional meaning , for I do not wish to beg the question yet against the second scenario . ) |
| 8 | I am not attacking the intellectual and musical meritocracy of Oxford and Cambridge for I do not wish to become embroiled in a political argument . |
| 9 | And when their voices dropped and silenced , I put my fingers in my ears , for I did not want to hear that , either . |
| 10 | I desire compassion and not sacrifice , for I did not come to call the righteous but sinners . |
| 11 | I chewed the bread and took the wine in one long gulp to control my trembling for I did not wish to disgrace myself . |
| 12 | It was my view that float fishing would not be a good idea anyhow , for I did not know of any big bream swims close enough to the bank for a float cast . |
| 13 | However , there are advantages to having an amateur detective of some sort , for you do not need to learn much about actual police procedures . |
| 14 | The answer to this must be : ‘ No , for she does not own the last quarter of the gardens . ’ |
| 15 | She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . ) |
| 16 | She was afraid to make much noise , for fear of being overheard by her employer next door , for she did not want to see her until after Benedict 's promised visit . |
| 17 | Although only sixteen , she was not much shocked by his attempts , but she was alarmed by her own lack of response , for she did not fancy him nearly as much as she had fancied the infinitely tedious Higginbotham . |
| 18 | She did not ask him his name , for she did not wish to know it . |
| 19 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 20 | For she did not like to think of Jonathon sitting a silent audience to the scenes of cold violence in the work-room . |
| 21 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 22 | Mrs Crumwallis 's thought had apparently glided elsewhere , for she did not correct Mrs Garfitt . |
| 23 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 24 | And when you have , you had better avoid our territory , for we do not like weak eagles who hide behind the names of once-proud families like Wrath . ’ |
| 25 | For we do not know what to pray for as we ought , but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words . |
| 26 | From rime to time we strolled hand in hand , with lighted cigarettes to give warning of our presence , for we did not talk . |
| 27 | For they did not start their life here and their ancient breeding grounds are far away . |
| 28 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 29 | Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge . |
| 30 | The first four counts are of limited use to the historian for they do not list individual households , but they do provide population figures on a township basis . |