Example sentences of "n't [verb] anything for " in BNC.
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| 1 | urgh , and you sick it all up again , I could n't eat a thing , I could n't eat anything for two days . |
| 2 | Have n't heard anything for quite some time now . |
| 3 | We have n't heard anything for |
| 4 | " Then how come they do n't make anything for themselves out of all this hard labor ? " inquired the senator politely . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | It was such a good idea that she could n't think anything for a moment-as if someone else had suggested it to her , and she needed to digest it . |
| 7 | If you eat sufficient at each mealtime you should n't need anything for later on ! |
| 8 | I do n't know anything for certain . ’ |
| 9 | It was hard because we did n't know anything for sure . |
| 10 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 11 | I could n't understand why they bothered to take him on , because he had n't won anything for years . |
| 12 | He had n't felt anything for three days now . |
| 13 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 14 | I do n't expect anything for it . |
| 15 | But Dot could n't do anything for her because she had to escape . |
| 16 | And whatever she did with her hair , it still , thought Henry , did n't do anything for her face — Maisie 's face was still there , round as a dinner plate . |
| 17 | ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent . |
| 18 | ‘ It does n't do anything for you . |
| 19 | ‘ In the early days , of course , I would keep it secret , because it was ‘ my sound ’ and so I would n't do anything for anyone else — it 's that whole trip about being a guitar player ! |
| 20 | I 'm not particularly fond of the control layout , either ; all the pots in a row look a bit ‘ lumpy ’ and do n't do anything for the line of the body . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't do anything for a while , not even put on a pair of trainers . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year because nothing was built , ’ she says . |
| 23 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year to see what would come up , and we had constant , wonderful surprises . |
| 24 | He 's afraid of sleeping too , and we ca n't do anything for him . |
| 25 | I 'm bilious and they do n't do anything for this |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , Lord … that wo n't do anything for my popularity . |
| 27 | They do n't do anything for me at all . |
| 28 | Now okay you know the , you know the one person you ca n't do anything for but it 's the way this lass looked you know and then about a week after that I 'm in Princes Street and I always try and er you know buy the , the Issues |
| 29 | Well of course , it 's not er , by chance the bible and God uses that picture because we 're , we are just like sheep in that sense , we ca n't do anything for ourselves . |
| 30 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |