Example sentences of "n't [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When intercepting a desired track QDM do n't wait for the exact Track QDM . |
| 3 | They do n't act for the governing body , by any chance ? ’ |
| 4 | But do n't opt for the obvious solution : cutting the stuff into stunted threads is practised only by the infantile . |
| 5 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Clint Eastwood ‘ When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher 's knife and a hard-on , I figure he is n't collecting for the Red Cross , ’ Dirty Harry |
| 13 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 14 | And it 's funny an' all that the dirty buggers do n't go for the ragged-arsed lot that 's swarmin , the place . |
| 15 | It also does n't account for the shattering effect of the great climaxes , nor the invigorating range and quickness of Birtwistle 's motivic thought . |