Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 2 | ( Jakobson associates relationships of contiguity with the figure metonymy , and those of equivalence with that of metaphor , a point which need not concern us for the moment , but which will become relevant in the discussion of Lacan later . ) |
| 3 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 4 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 5 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
| 6 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 7 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 8 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 9 | Why is it that those countries can accept basic , decent minimum standards for their people whereas this Government will not accept them for the British people ? |
| 10 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 11 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |