Example sentences of "[verb] n't [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 2 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 3 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 4 | He has n't come here for the Portrush air and must not be written off . ’ |
| 5 | As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months . |
| 6 | I did n't care much for the hens and geese but I had quite a high opinion of the pigs . |
| 7 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 8 | If you did n't watch out for the traffic |
| 9 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 10 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 11 | Of course , these would be the ones who did n't make straight for the pubs . |
| 12 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 13 | ‘ The only reason I did n't sign up for the navy was because I could n't swim , ’ Tommy grumbled . |
| 14 | I was caught and summoned to the Latin master , who said to me , ’ Walker , you did n't turn up for the Latin exam . ’ |
| 15 | Messrs Shotton and Unsworth did n't turn up for the count . |
| 16 | It therefore did n't add up for the government or the CEGB to argue that nuclear power provided such an enormously valuable insurance cover . |
| 17 | I did n't stick around for the session . |
| 18 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 19 | It did n't take long for the cobwebs of sleep to clear and for her to realize that it was the fire-bell . |
| 20 | It did n't take long for the cracks to show . |
| 21 | ‘ Brian Gayle did n't defend well for the first goal and Gage did a Val Parnell act in the middle of the park to set up the lad for his second . ’ |
| 22 | But perhaps I give that impression because I have strong views on certain subjects and because I do n't go in for the social whirl , for fast cars and fast women . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't care either for the way Marriner protracts the pauses in the second theme ( from 2′51″ ) — a rhetorical effect that impairs the music 's inexorable momentum . |
| 24 | Some of the neighbours , however , do n't care much for the spotters ' activities . |
| 25 | ‘ The Army ought to start asking questions when she does n't turn up for the nest course at the Fort ’ George said hopefully . |