Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As of the Tories as we 're not going to for non-trade unions where employees are hand-picked by their employer . |
| 2 | Fortunately they were not called upon for the supreme test , however , for Alice scooped her up from behind and tried to propel her into safer water . |
| 3 | Are there friends you have not spoken to for months or even longer ? |
| 4 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 5 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
| 6 | , I have n't heard of for ages . |
| 7 | I 'm tempted to go but I do n't want to for the fool I 'll make out of myself . |
| 8 | We do n't need to for two weeks . |
| 9 | Lighting , however , you ca n't do without for obvious reasons and also because it adds a great deal of extra interest to a room ( see Lighting is important , page 35 ) |
| 10 | I was n't prepared for for it at all |
| 11 | " Because the Threarah does n't like anything he has n't thought of for himself " answered Hazel . |
| 12 | Aunt Tossie was deep in talk with a friend she had n't bothered about for years . |
| 13 | Agnes first screwed up her face , then she stretched it before she muttered , ‘ That cousin Mary in Durham , the one you have n't spoken to for twelve years , if not longer , or , as I should say , who has n't spoken to you since she married Mr Boston , a man of supposed wealth and position , and got too big for her boots , as you 've often stated ? |
| 14 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 15 | It was n't frowned upon for a woman to start talking loud and making a fool of herself . |
| 16 | My point is that if a player wants to play for Leeds , and has no wish to leave , they should nt have to FOR FINANCIAL reasons . |