Example sentences of "do n't [verb] [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Er , if anybody has , did n't have spinach for lunch , I have a purloined thing of scissors .
2 People did n't have money for taxis so we took limousines .
3 Defries did n't have time for talk .
4 If they did n't have food for breakfast for us , they would n't wake us up in the morning .
5 It did n't take imminence for Jezrael to know that violence was only skin-deep in each of the three men , hidden like lava , waiting to erupt .
6 Maybe in ten , fifteen years the situation may change , but I do n't think enlargement for enlargement 's sake is going to be of benefit to the E C.
7 You do n't want equality for women .
8 A recent survey by law firm Eversheds shows that a quarter of senior executives of medium and large-sized companies are considering changing their accountants , bankers or solicitors because they do n't get value for money .
9 You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense .
10 ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori .
11 ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara .
12 When asked several times for an explanation he eventually said very plaintively , ‘ Daddy , you do n't say grace for porridge ! ’
13 erm just just as something totally off the top of my head erm I very much regretted the demise of the proper programme erm and in fact I I actually object to the paying twenty pence for something that er really does n't represent value for money .
14 It does n't sound –it for pigs . ’
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