Example sentences of "[noun prp] did [not/n't] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see by those here present that Samuel did not lack for friends , ’ said the priest who now filled the place of Father Michael . |
| 2 | Georgia did not apply for membership . |
| 3 | Shelley did n't wait for Miguel then , but ran to the drug cupboard and unlocked the door . |
| 4 | It is strange , however , that Garrick did not subscribe for Leapor 's volumes , since at almost the same time he subscribed for the Irish bricklayer poet , Henry Jones , though this may have been done to please Chesterfield . |
| 5 | It is reasonably circumstantial , and the description of English plans is very plausible , even though Warwick and Despenser did not sail for Gascony , and no embassy as described went to Germany in 1295 . |
| 6 | Set in the early 1980s , and about liberal politicians cleaning up a small town , it will , Beswick hopes , ‘ do for Little Rock what John Major did n't do for Huntingdon ’ . |
| 7 | Sir George did n't vote for Sir Anthony because he could n't take him seriously . |
| 8 | The place suddenly had its history of bloodletting to be sniffed , and yet even that was not exciting , maybe because the Nîmois did not roar for blood as the Romans had , but sunned themselves and discussed finer points of capework . |
| 9 | Dorothy did not care for books , so Helen became a librarian . |
| 10 | Detective Chief Inspector Wexford did n't care for dogs . |