Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 3 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 4 | She joined the Garter knights for a reception and lunch before the ceremony before deciding not to join them for the service at St George 's Chapel . |
| 5 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 6 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 7 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 8 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 9 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 10 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 11 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 12 | Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear . |
| 13 | The process did n't perturb him for the simple reason that it did n't repel Willie . |
| 14 | He did n't answer her for a moment ; when he did , it was quietly . |
| 15 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 16 | ‘ Scheduling , ’ he repeated blandly with a patience that did n't fool her for an instant . |
| 17 | With his guilt over Anthony , he felt that at least she loved him and did n't blame him for the death . |
| 18 | Iain did n't notice her for a while , but eventually it dawned on him that the blur in the corner of his eye was n't just a blob of grease on his eyelash . |
| 19 | Her voice was abrupt and she did n't thank him for the offer . |
| 20 | and they did n't reduce them for the sale . |
| 21 | Oh I 'm surprised they did n't charge you for the cost of a single journey . |
| 22 | But I did n't ring you for a critical appraisal of my work . |
| 23 | I do n't want him to say well she did n't come round , she did n't ask me for the money , I mean I have n't ask him for the money and , he 'd like to on a Friday , when one come up , when the next one comes you can you ? |
| 24 | Anyway , I did n't ask you for a lecture ! |
| 25 | I did I did n't doubt it for a minute , I thought I know this |
| 26 | I did n't say it for the applause . |
| 27 | I did n't believe her for a minute but I did n't see what I could do . |
| 28 | Fox did n't believe it for a minute . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't believe it for a single moment , darling , ’ she repeated earnestly . |
| 30 | Though she did n't believe it for a moment . |