Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It signed a standstill agreement under which it promised not to increase its holding for three years . |
| 2 | The job has not soured his taste for milk , as he often drinks two pints a day and he still enjoys doing his round , which takes in some of Ulster 's most spectacular scenery around the Mourne Mountains . |
| 3 | If the skunk has not squirted its glands for some time , then it is primed for about six powerful shots at the enemy , but it is unlikely to use all its ammunition at once because it will take about a week for replenishment and the animal can not afford to risk being cornered empty-glanded by a second predator . |
| 4 | Celtic should be encouraged by the form of Paul McStay , who orchestrated their dominance in this match and clearly has not lost his zest for the game after a long winter injury . |
| 5 | Galbraith , as always , writes in pellucid prose , and has not lost his talent for demonstrating that our rulers have few clothes when it comes to justification of their economic policies . |
| 6 | At present , only France has not given its go-ahead for ERS-2 funding . |
| 7 | She has not seen her children for two years . |
| 8 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 9 | ( The PLAYER has not moved his position for his last four lines . |
| 10 | The company , which recently sold its stake in the Sheraton Edinburgh ( see page 26 ) , has not restricted its funds for leisure investment , according to Martin Woods , an accounting adviser working with Mr Lowe . |
| 11 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 12 | I 'M A WOMAN IN MY THIRTIES but age has n't blunted my passion for all things : books , cinema , wine , travel , conversation and good living . |
| 13 | ‘ Victoria has n't seen her father for months . |
| 14 | " Dr McNab still has n't granted my request for evidence that cholera is spread by drinking water . |
| 15 | Right , well we have two hundred and sixty five pounds and sixty eight pence in the bank at the moment , erm which actually is n't very much if you think that we 've got to go right through to July to our next fund raising event , so , I was wondering that , if anyone has n't paid their subscriptions for last year or if anyone owes for Christmas cards , I think there 's one or two |
| 16 | Cos Clive has n't paid his tax for three years , and the tax man caught up with him . |
| 17 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 18 | In a statement on Austrian television he said : " After weighing the interests of our republic , the experiences of the past years , and also my personal plans for the future , I have decided not to offer my candidacy for re-election . " |
| 19 | Other companies still in dispute with Disney have agreed not to press their claims for the time being and will call off plans for a demonstration at Sunday 's opening ceremony . |
| 20 | Sotheby 's fear must be that potential purchasers will turn to Christie 's at the lower price level should their competitors decide not to raise their rate for the time being . |
| 21 | Even when , as we show later , Brazil had an opportunity to do so when it invited the multinationals to establish its automobile industry , it chose not to exercise its power for fear of discouraging potential entrants . |
| 22 | Media Vision Technology Inc , making multimedia products in Fremont , California got its initial public offering of 1.75m shares , 1m of them new , away at $26.25 a share ; it did not give its plans for the $25m or so net proceeds . |
| 23 | He would often go down to the Hare and Hounds at the west end of Hury — it 's gone now of course — but he was a grand man and his scarum ways did not alter my affection for him one bit . |
| 24 | But , after fifteen years alone on the island , I was afraid , and I did not leave my cave for three days . |
| 25 | Even as heir-apparent , he had been in correspondence with Louis XVI of France concerning his plans for reorganising the army , and the overthrow of the French monarchy in the year of his accession , 1789 , did not diminish his enthusiasm for learning from the west . |
| 26 | Innocent 's letters of the summer and autumn 1200 ( to all the princes of Germany , to Philip Augustus , to King John and to the duke of Brabant and his wife ) did not hide his preference for Otto . |
| 27 | Fernandes , the party 's former shadow Foreign Minister , was quoted as saying that if Savimbi did not accept their call for reforms at the party conference to be held on June 30 , their tendency would split from UNITA . |
| 28 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 29 | It did not replace my fascination for mammals , birds and reptiles . |
| 30 | This tragedy , however , did not dull their passion for skiing and Sarah remembers the early rivalry for supremacy on the slopes . |