Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 3 | I shall not pursue the point here , but it can be developed into one of the explanations for why particular arms races stabilize and do not go on for ever — do not lead to predators pursuing their prey at Mach 2 and so on . |
| 4 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 5 | The French do not go in for diphthongs but have at least one vowel sound that almost defeats the Anglo-Saxon . |
| 6 | ‘ Give me your number and do not go out for the next half-hour . ’ |
| 7 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 8 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 9 | If we do not turn up for work , we are likely to get the sack , but in our private worlds we can dream our lives away at home , church or play . |
| 10 | The UCW believes the rounds of postmen who do not turn up for work will not be covered by overtime . |
| 11 | • If you wake during the night ( sometimes because you need to empty your bladder ) then return to bed and relax as soon as possible , Do not get up for a cup of tea or snack as this will give misleading information to your body clock . |
| 12 | It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years . |
| 13 | Do not store up for yourselves treasure on earth , where it grows rusty and moth-eaten , and thieves break in to steal it . |
| 14 | Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others . |
| 15 | That 's why it is so important that we do n't give up for an instant . |
| 16 | There must have been one , a moment , in childhood when it first occurred to you that you do n't go on for ever . |
| 17 | " People do n't go on for ever — not even in banks ! |
| 18 | I do n't go in for numbers as names . |
| 19 | Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes , he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature : ‘ We do n't go in for quick quack books . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 21 | I exaggerate , of course : they do n't go in for tears , they just ignore me . |
| 22 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ Yorkshiremen do n't go in for paying compliments , ’ she said . |
| 25 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 26 | " We do n't go in for flowers , " said Clelia , displaying with a sweep of her arm the lower level , curiously cluttered with urns , a bench , a dislocated piece of mosaic resting on its end , and a functionless fountain . |
| 27 | We do n't go in for presents . |
| 28 | Mushroom is respectable too , I should add — but we do n't go in for tans , we 're too worried about skin cancer . |
| 29 | ‘ But we do n't go in for top models , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , y'know , Else always was one for washing , she gets it from me , but Sidney , 'e do n't go in for baths much , well men do n't , do they ? |