Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge has not asked for the 37year-old Marquess , heir to Blenheim Palace , to attend . |
| 2 | Hirst , who scored in his second appearance on the 1991 tour of Australasia , has not played for the senior side since that Wembley game . |
| 3 | While Mr Patiño may well be selling to simplify his life after he moves into his new London residence , Mrs Johnson 's reasons for selling are much more controversial , as it is generally believed that the heiress has not paid for the celebrated Badminton Cabinet which she bought at Christie 's , London , in July 1990 for a record £7.6 million ( $15.2 million ) . |
| 4 | When you realise that 90 are now considered a reasonable number , it is clear that at least one thing has not changed for the better . |
| 5 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 6 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
| 7 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 8 | Taylor said : ‘ Freidle would n't meet the criteria for a work permit if he has n't played for the full international side of a country that does n't have a high standard of football . |
| 9 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 10 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |
| 11 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 12 | Lyle , who scored a 71 for 147 , has n't qualified for the other two American majors . |
| 13 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 14 | Reports indicated that agreement on the final communiqué was reached only after France had decided not to press for a clearer recognition of a European defence identity distinct from NATO . |
| 15 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 16 | Sometimes that means not looking for the obvious , adds Mr Pilkington , who is also a real ale connoisseur and member of CAMRA . |
| 17 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 18 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 19 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 20 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 21 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 22 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
| 23 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
| 24 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 25 | But relations between the youngsters and their adult minders did not change for the better . |
| 26 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 27 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 28 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 29 | The superb frescoes , concealed from sight by Muslim prejudice for nearly five hundred years , were again on view , but they did not compensate for a profound sense of desecration . |
| 30 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |