Example sentences of "n't [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't money for clothes that she wanted . |
| 2 | You are cautious/play it safe/hold back/do n't experiment for fear of making a mistake/failing/looking stupid . |
| 3 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 4 | I could n't caddie for him because I was with the central-heating men . |
| 5 | And I did n't canvas for him , I just marked up . |
| 6 | She knew that it was n't desire for the acquisition of knowledge that drove him , but the programmed need to find the bomb . |
| 7 | Cyril Gibbs says the council dumped a lot of stuff there that they had n't room for in the new building . ’ |
| 8 | There was n't room for more than one such space hogger at Barnsdale ; after much agonised indecision I finally could n't resist the bronze-leaved Rodgersia pinnata . |
| 9 | But this book takes in many forest areas too and I suppose there is n't room for everything . |
| 10 | There was n't room for her to stay in the flat with the three other girls so they decided that Katrine should stay in Piazza Pitti in Debbie 's flat . |
| 11 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |
| 12 | Carrie walked behind because there was n't room for three on the path , but she was n't afraid . |
| 13 | " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians ! |
| 14 | So take a tip from none other than Graham Greene : " A story has n't room for more than a limited number of created characters . " |
| 15 | I could n't stay in Holloway because there was n't room for sentenced women . |
| 16 | There is n't room for them in the Gaza Strip and West Bank . |
| 17 | There was n't room for two good friends , let alone people who hardly knew each other , to work at the same time . |
| 18 | We there was n't room for a three piece suite sort of thing and then you 'd have a sideboard and a table , chairs to sit on like hard chairs , wooden chairs like kitchen chairs . |
| 19 | " There is n't room for both of us ! " |
| 20 | Well perhaps there was n't room for her sit in the back ! |
| 21 | I do n't I do n't whatsername for all . |
| 22 | ‘ United do n't build-up for games in the same way but perhaps they 'd want to try it . |
| 23 | understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word . |
| 24 | It was n't weather for sitting in the garden , but we are fortunate in having windows which look over our own small front garden , and because there is no hedge , beyond to the road . |
| 25 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |
| 26 | There are many stories but we have n't time for that today . |
| 27 | ‘ Ca n't you tell them , ’ Sheppard whispered to Kingsley Martin during a meeting with Gregg , ‘ that we have n't time for all this intensive cultivation and that our job is to stop the next bloody war . ’ |
| 28 | She had n't time for a fight . |
| 29 | The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away . |
| 30 | There certainly was n't time for thought just now , and had there been I 'd probably have been sick . ’ |