Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John remembers he has not eaten for twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | ‘ He has not asked for any help from us . |
| 3 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 4 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 5 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 6 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 7 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 9 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 10 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 11 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 12 | Partly because of such difficulties the development of meaningful and quantifiable output measures has not occurred for many areas of departmental activity . |
| 13 | It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research . |
| 14 | ‘ He has n't exercised for five years and has no muscle tone left but now he is able to exercise in the gym . |
| 15 | Wolves goal machine , Steve Bull has n't scored for 9 games now . |
| 16 | Letting someone who is hungry and overweight , and who has n't eaten for six hours , loose in a supermarket should be a criminal offence ! |
| 17 | Centre Andy Luke also returns , while Paul Rodgers is preferred at hooker to Mike Fenwick , who has n't played for several weeks . |
| 18 | Rose sends greetings to all those Medau friends she has n't seen for some time . |
| 19 | What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years . |
| 20 | ‘ She has n't worked for seven years , ’ I said |
| 21 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 22 | Look at this kid : eighteen years old , three in the morning , has n't slept for two nights . |
| 23 | Or : ‘ Jane Ryle says she has n't slept for three nights . ’ |
| 24 | Still , one can see him becoming more loath to accept the evil in the good : and while this is charitable , it does not make for powerful story . |
| 25 | Without following Jakobson 's analysis in detail — it does not make for easy reading — I shall simply give examples of the sort of relationship he identifies under each of these headings . |
| 26 | But the use of inexpertly laid and brightly coloured bricks , token pitched roofs and arched windows does not make for likeable architecture . |
| 27 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 28 | It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again . |
| 29 | But , except by private or hybrid Bills , Parliament does not legislate for individual cases . |
| 30 | The first three also damage stratospheric ozone , while ozone produced in the troposphere does not compensate for this loss , but in fact behaves as another greenhouse gas . |