Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet Carrie dared not speak out for fear they would question her reasons , and she was not clear about them herself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 10 | Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while . |
| 11 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Angry with Nutty for her pigheadedness and superior airs , Nails did not turn up for the next swimming lesson . |
| 14 | They did not turn up for sessions they considered boring and did not meet their needs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ When I left it was open ended so that if things did not work out for me I could go back to playing Charlene . |
| 17 | ‘ It was just disappointing things did not work out for him . |
| 18 | A Ford colleague from Knaresborough had bought Sherwoods but things did not work out for him , says Mr MacConachie . |
| 19 | I did not cry out for assistance , |
| 20 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 21 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 22 | If those with inside knowledge of the facts did n't speak up for Britain , who the hell would ? |
| 23 | My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort . |
| 24 | If Americans did n't stand up for Americans , why should Greeks stand up for … ? |
| 25 | She replied that that might be so , ‘ but maybe in her community women did n't stand up for themselves quite as much as they should . ’ |
| 26 | If you did n't watch out for the traffic |
| 27 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 28 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't dress up for him ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 30 | So they did n't go out for exercise ? |