Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 4 | He has not turned out for the village team since . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 8 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 9 | I 've trained her , but she has n't gone in for the exams . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet Carrie dared not speak out for fear they would question her reasons , and she was not clear about them herself . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 21 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 22 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 23 | Rincewind did not glance around for fear of the terrible things he might see , and by the time Withel looked for him again he was on the other side of the Plaza , and still accelerating . |
| 24 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 25 | They did not turn up for sessions they considered boring and did not meet their needs . |
| 26 | They did , however , provide a good deal of entertainment for the rest of the group and would be missed if they did not turn up for a game . |
| 27 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 28 | ‘ It was just disappointing things did not work out for him . |
| 29 | A Ford colleague from Knaresborough had bought Sherwoods but things did not work out for him , says Mr MacConachie . |
| 30 | I did not cry out for assistance , |