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

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1 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 .
2 Parker did not go in for German beer .
3 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 ?
4 We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior .
5 Even when I arrived back at Thornfield , I did not go in for a while .
6 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 .
7 I said I was n't cuttin' no-one 's throat , I did n't go in for it .
8 ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’
9 How was she to explain that she did n't go in for this high-profile look ?
10 My family did n't go in for that sort of thing .
11 But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration .
12 er , but they did n't go in for food like er you 're talking about
13 Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things .
14 Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses
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