Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.

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1 He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election .
2 He has not turned out for the village team since .
3 He has not turned out for the village team since .
4 Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come .
5 In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards .
6 Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson .
7 Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft .
8 ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’
9 At the time and date arranged , he meets an old friend and decides not to turn up for the meal with his niece .
10 Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival .
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