Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs E. had no clothes , she has not had any for a year . |
| 2 | Scarlet did not believe this for a moment , which was why she held reality at arm 's length and had to see a therapist about it . |
| 3 | Peter did not believe this for a moment . |
| 4 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 5 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 6 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ The scene does not seem right for a 1987 style crash , but the more cautious will be dusting off the chartist 's recommendations to see which shares can still be sold . ’ |