Example sentences of "did not [verb] [pron] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It did not do anything for manufacturing investment .
2 The book goes on to quote Stephen Jay Gould , the noted Harvard palaeontologist , as saying : We avoid the excellent question , What good is 5 percent of an eye ? by arguing that the possessor of such an incipient structure did not use it for sight .
3 For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line .
4 Even among that cosmopolitan crowd I felt awkward in my 1990s rented Renault runabout , but Berlin airport did not have anything for hire with half-tracks at the back , no period Kubelwagen Type 82 staff cars , a Schwimmwagen perhaps , or what I might have really gone for — an old Humber Super Snipe finished in khaki with white mudguards .
5 He did not qualify him for income support , he supported him on to the back of his ass , he took him to the inn .
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