Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 2 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 3 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 4 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 5 | He did not say anything for a few moments and then he shrugged and gave a sharp laugh . |
| 6 | Blanche looked at Lancaster with a quizzical smile and did not say anything for a full ten seconds . |