Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And now he 'll not forgive me for a twelvemonth . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’ |
4 | I knew he was so incensed he could n't control himself ; I could n't blame him for the fury which inhabited him . |
5 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
6 | Almost that , and I want to say that I have some sympathy for the lady who has children and just could n't entertain them for the day . |
7 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
8 | I know you could n't hurt her for the world . |
9 | 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 … |
10 | well you could but you could n't sell it for a reasonable price . |
11 | ( 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 . ) |
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 | 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 " . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
18 | He even holds back when we hear the car pull away , and I would n't blame him for a moment . |
19 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
20 | I would n't want you for an enemy , Harry . |
21 | I would n't hurt her for the world . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | My life has changed and I live around the horses and would n't change it for the world now . |
24 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
25 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
26 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
27 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
28 | I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
29 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world ! ’ she replied , smiling . |
30 | As for this weekend 's display , Gary would n't miss it for the world . |