Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 2 | Laughton pledged not to bid for any Chemics star for at least a season — unless they wanted to sell . |
| 3 | Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size . |
| 4 | Sesostris did not speak for some time . |
| 5 | However , 1792 did not establish for all time antislavery as a movement of popular mobilisation demonstrated in the use of general public meetings . |
| 6 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 7 | In 1990 and 1991 , it did not apply for any money from the top slice programme — for enveloping , for group repair and area renewal , for the homelessness reserve , for the reserve for private or defective dwellings or for priority estates . |
| 8 | I did not ask for more money — I was in Bayreuth at the time . ’ |
| 9 | The opportunities of individual patronage may have been reduced , but few major writers from the time of Gay and Swift to that of George Crabbe did not look for such patronage or shape some composition toward the expectations of a patron . |
| 10 | I remember there were invitations given out to go to it , sherry party , I had an invitation but I did n't go for some reason |
| 11 | But a doctor did n't arrive for another hour and a half , by which time Mrs Johansen had died from a heart attack brought on by the fracture . |
| 12 | They did n't ask for any money , they just wanted a good royalty and help with promotion . |
| 13 | ‘ What a blessing I did n't fall for some curtaining remnants this afternoon . |
| 14 | He did n't wait for any response , but pushed open the heavy white gates with a scrunch of gravel . |
| 15 | Fortunately he did n't wait for any reply . |
| 16 | She stormed off and did n't wait for any reply , but Alain caught her quickly . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt we played a little bit like an end of season game and did n't work for each other . ’ |
| 18 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 19 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 20 | However , the Colonel had not waited for this confirmation in writing and issued his certificate on 24 May , so the line opened on 26 May without ceremony , the company taking their pick of the 19 cars stored in Mitcham Road depôt . |
| 21 | Both reluctantly agreed that they had reputations for fighting , but insisted that they had not strived for such status . |
| 22 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 23 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 24 | He had n't appeared for this scene : none of the actors had . |
| 25 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 26 | You had n't spoken for some time . |