Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [vb pp] 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 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
| 6 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | Maureen has n't worked for the last few years and she 's ill herself , she 's got hepatitis B. |
| 11 | Lyle , who scored a 71 for 147 , has n't qualified for the other two American majors . |
| 12 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 13 | The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum . |
| 14 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 15 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 16 | The home owner had not waited for the bureaucratic processes to be completed ; she had acted out of the goodness of her heart . |
| 17 | But she had not bargained for a complete refusal to attend . |
| 18 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 19 | One of the president 's earliest and most loyal supporters on the Hill says , privately , that those among his constituents who , until 1992 , had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for 16 years think they have been tricked . |
| 20 | People asked exoneration from a mistake made by a group to which they belonged-the nation-not in individual innocence but in membership of a different and more immediate community that had acted well , a state that had not voted for a dishonest president . |
| 21 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 22 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 23 | I 've not cared for the last few at all , but this one I 'd definitely play on the radio . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 25 | I had n't bargained for the next difficulty : ‘ It wo n't work , ’ he commented , ‘ because my son smokes and he 'll take pity on me and give me one when I run out . ’ |
| 26 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 27 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 28 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 29 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 30 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |