Example sentences of "[verb] n't [verb] [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is very meticulous and quite demanding , and has n't got time for people who do n't know their job . ’ |
| 2 | Er , if anybody has , did n't have spinach for lunch , I have a purloined thing of scissors . |
| 3 | People did n't have money for taxis so we took limousines . |
| 4 | Defries did n't have time for talk . |
| 5 | If they did n't have food for breakfast for us , they would n't wake us up in the morning . |
| 6 | It did n't take imminence for Jezrael to know that violence was only skin-deep in each of the three men , hidden like lava , waiting to erupt . |
| 7 | Maybe in ten , fifteen years the situation may change , but I do n't think enlargement for enlargement 's sake is going to be of benefit to the E C. |
| 8 | You do n't want equality for women . |
| 9 | A recent survey by law firm Eversheds shows that a quarter of senior executives of medium and large-sized companies are considering changing their accountants , bankers or solicitors because they do n't get value for money . |
| 10 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 13 | When asked several times for an explanation he eventually said very plaintively , ‘ Daddy , you do n't say grace for porridge ! ’ |
| 14 | Nick stuffed and stuffed as if he had n't seen food for weeks but Carrie could hardly eat anything . |
| 15 | He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank . |
| 16 | erm just just as something totally off the top of my head erm I very much regretted the demise of the proper programme erm and in fact I I actually object to the paying twenty pence for something that er really does n't represent value for money . |
| 17 | It does n't sound –it for pigs . ’ |
| 18 | We have n't had lamb for years now . |
| 19 | I have n't got patience for people who are ill |
| 20 | Curve have n't got time for apathy — there 's got to be some attitude to your music . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 22 | Er have n't got time for tea |
| 23 | Cos I have n't taken paracetamol for ages . |