Example sentences of "n't [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 2 | In an era of fast food , subsistence incomes do n't make for a culinary culture . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ Small budgets , apologetic councils strapped for cash , and a complex social and sometimes ethnic mix of young customers and their parents do n't make for an easy life . ’ |
| 4 | It certainly does n't make for an ideal working relationship , does it ? ’ |
| 5 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 6 | If you ca n't wait for a new model , the Black & Decker Woodworker is ideal for the beginner , or for those wanting a second router for lots of small repetitive tasks . |
| 7 | When intercepting a desired track QDM do n't wait for the exact Track QDM . |
| 8 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 9 | They do n't act for the governing body , by any chance ? ’ |
| 10 | But do n't opt for the obvious solution : cutting the stuff into stunted threads is practised only by the infantile . |
| 11 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 12 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
| 13 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
| 14 | He knew he ought not to mark the books really , but it was only a tiny mark in pencil and no-one could accuse him of defacing library property , not really , it would n't do for an ex-library committee member to be caught defacing library property now would it . |
| 15 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 17 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 18 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |
| 19 | Have n't done for a long time . |
| 20 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 21 | This wo n't work for a single motif , but how about a single motif in black , knitted against a striped background of bright jewel colours , or white on pastel stripes ? ( for this , the card does n't need to be reversed of course . ) |
| 22 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 23 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 24 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 25 | It 's the first time I 've actually , well cos I have n't sung for a long time . |
| 26 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 27 | The slogans of the main parties could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for the other party ’ ; and the only person rising in the polls was the leader of the Liberal Democrats , whose message could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for negative campaigning ’ . |
| 28 | What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free . |
| 29 | But that wo n't happen for a long time , says Richard Outcalt , a retail-sales consultant in Seattle . |
| 30 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |