Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 2 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 3 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 6 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 7 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 8 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 13 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 14 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | ( 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 . ) |
| 17 | Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear . |
| 18 | And now he 'll not forgive me for a twelvemonth . |
| 19 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I do n't want you for a stonechipper ! |
| 21 | I would n't want you for an enemy , Harry . |
| 22 | right if you do n't want it for a pound I 'll have it back |
| 23 | ‘ Scheduling , ’ he repeated blandly with a patience that did n't fool her for an instant . |
| 24 | You do n't fool me for a second . ’ |
| 25 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
| 26 | I would n't hurt her for the world . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh well , I suppose it wo n't hurt me for a couple of days . |
| 28 | He closed his eyes tightly ; then in a much quieter voice , he said , ‘ Pet , you know I would n't hurt you for the world , but you 're hurting me . |
| 29 | She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma … |
| 30 | He did n't answer her for a moment ; when he did , it was quietly . |