Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 2 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 3 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 4 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 5 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 6 | The difficulty is most apparent when discussing the Renaissance since by hypostatising science and art as two separate and separable activities Kemp is framing a problem that did not exist for the historical actors . |
| 7 | Sufficient funds did not exist for the fast rehabilitation of the railways , for the immediate implementation of mass education . |
| 8 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
| 9 | Catholics , however , did not vote for the Unionist Party . |
| 10 | Ransom did not apply for the permanent job at financially-troubled Dudley — one of the lowest spending metropolitan authorities on social services . |
| 11 | Culture conflict between the British and Sri Lankans over the boundaries of crime , concepts of status and appropriate punishments was real , but it did not account for the general approach to the courts discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 12 | Second , steady loss , albeit at differing rates from the two populations , did not account for the observed pattern . |
| 13 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 14 | Mother never stopped telling me she did n't care for the lax morals that had become so fashionable since the outbreak of the war . |
| 15 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 16 | After all Leeds City Council did nt pay for the new stand did they . |
| 17 | The students ' performance on the problem based and lecture courses were not found to correlate with their preference for type of course , and those who had not volunteered for the new pathway did as well as those who had , even on the problem based sections of the new curriculum . |
| 18 | The home owner had not waited for the bureaucratic processes to be completed ; she had acted out of the goodness of her heart . |
| 19 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 20 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 21 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |