Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | PORTSMOUTH striker Guy Whittingham took his tally for the season to 27 and then said : ‘ I do n't know why bigger clubs have not come in for me . ’ |
| 2 | What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things . |
| 3 | Yeah , he 's not pulling in for me , he 's pulling in for himself I think actually . |
| 4 | " I reckon you 're very wise not going in for this lark , " Joanne said , shifting the mound of her body uncomfortably under the bedclothes . |
| 5 | He 's not going in for any pretending over a baby unless he comes in for a share of the cash , bloody ridiculous it is . |
| 6 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 7 | If Gazza is back in the Lazio team then he has potentially two more fixtures before England 's game against Norway and that provides us with an opportunity to take a look at him in competitive football , something he has not played in for nearly two years . ’ |
| 8 | The royal family does not go in for oratory , so the policy is evident mostly in endless American- and British-made videos on television , boasting of Saudi Arabia 's military and industrial prowess . |
| 9 | The Old Testament does not go in for saints . |
| 10 | Genesis does not go in for saints ( though Joseph will , perhaps , approach that status ) . |
| 11 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 12 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 13 | The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon . |
| 14 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 15 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 16 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 17 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 18 | Different objectives of different finns controlled and limited the techniques of production they could use ( eg. a firm developing prototypes of electronic equipment can not go in for mass-production ) . |
| 19 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 20 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 21 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |
| 22 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 23 | And er I thought well I wo n't really , and I probably did n't like losing anyway you know I I I was never a good loser I do n't think , and I thought no I sha n't get many votes and I 'll look silly I 'm not putting in for it . |
| 24 | Why not pop in for lunch ? |
| 25 | " We ca n't stay in for ever , Stephen . |
| 26 | but little , people could n't break in for erm |
| 27 | And we 'll sort out last week 's postal competition so do n't ring in for this one and the question was , What 's this got to do with a company ? |
| 28 | He was n't going in for the Eddie . |
| 29 | You have n't stayed in for about two months ’ , which is true really . |
| 30 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |