Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 But the main reason why interviews prove ineffective is that the interviewer has not been properly trained and has not prepared thoroughly for the task .
2 Then Arthur Miller added : ‘ The thing to remember is that it has not gone away for ever . ’
3 However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise .
4 The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years .
5 He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election .
6 He has not turned out for the village team since .
7 He has not turned out for the village team since .
8 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 . ’
9 Andrew Lloyd Webber has not slept properly for weeks .
10 The 24-year-old , who injured himself while winning bronze at last year 's Olympics , has not thrown competitively for 10 months since .
11 Smith said : ‘ He has n't trained properly for six to seven weeks and needs a game under his belt . ’
12 I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ?
13 So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview .
14 So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview .
15 I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams .
16 D' you know , the tree has n't flowered properly for six years .
17 He has n't come here for the Portrush air and must not be written off . ’
18 As well as contributing to Oslobodjenje Camo is editor-in-chief of Nedjelja , a weekly magazine published by the same company , but which has n't come out for the last three months .
19 Let us examine the implications of this ; property crime became by far the most common form of crime during the period in which the prison emerged ; therefore forced labour would have become the most common punishment ; forced labour requires incarceration ( people tend not to turn up for it of their own free will ) .
20 Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come .
21 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 .
22 Yet Carrie dared not speak out for fear they would question her reasons , and she was not clear about them herself .
23 Irina , who did not dress up for Ludens , was wearing a simple faded old dress , frail with much washing , the sleeves rolled up well above her elbows .
24 Millie did not care much for Sister Monica either .
25 By the late 1960s , Peat Marwick Mitchell 's headhunting division was earning $2m. annually with 20 consultants , an impressive performance considering the much lower salaries paid at that time ; but it clashed with their accountancy clients , and the top management did not care much for Korn 's apparently pushy style .
26 He did not care much for fun just now .
27 Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’
28 The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it .
29 Perhaps because of all this extra strain , the tour did not go well for Noreen after this .
30 In 1795 , Piper was promoted to Lieutenant and returned to Sydney but things did not go well for him .
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