Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John remembers he has not eaten for twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 3 | ‘ He has not asked for any help from us . |
| 4 | It is on its way out , but it has not gone for good — yet . |
| 5 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 6 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 7 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 8 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 9 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 10 | In the 16 years in which we have had our part of the legislation , we have applied for only 31 people to be tried in the Republic , of whom only 16 were convicted and the Irish Republic has not applied for any such cases at all . |
| 11 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 12 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 13 | That seems likely to be primarily down to Germany because the UK was flat on its back a year ago and Italy has not bubbled for some time , while the French recession is only now gathering pace . |
| 14 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 15 | Partly because of such difficulties the development of meaningful and quantifiable output measures has not occurred for many areas of departmental activity . |
| 16 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 17 | It has not allowed for public discussion or exchanges in which people can ask questions and receive answers from those who undertook the research . |
| 18 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 19 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 20 | The premiere had not called for any great celebration , even the soi-disant Louise Müller being in subdued spirits after her confession . |
| 21 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 22 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 23 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |
| 24 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 25 | He had not moved for four , maybe five , hours . |
| 26 | Bora Mulitonovic 's side had won just once in their last 16 games and they had not scored for 389 minutes . |
| 27 | She complained that her children had apparently not been allowed access to a Baptist minister , but was told that they had not asked for religious support when it was offered . |
| 28 | I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero . |
| 29 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 30 | In another undated letter to Gaunt Minton admits that owing to the pressure of illustrative work he had not painted for eight months . |