Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tipped the cassette box out on the floor and jumbled them all back what she 'd not heard for ages was now at the top . |
| 2 | She was determined not to be bludgeoned into submission by lack of money and a system that seemed not to care for mothers and children . |
| 3 | He decided not to go for repair grants . |
| 4 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 5 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 6 | Of course he had some other assets , but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy . |
| 7 | This reciprocal position did not make for sincerity and real understanding . |
| 8 | The place suddenly had its history of bloodletting to be sniffed , and yet even that was not exciting , maybe because the Nîmois did not roar for blood as the Romans had , but sunned themselves and discussed finer points of capework . |
| 9 | He was finding he resented people who did not care for Wyvis Hall as much as he did . |
| 10 | The dean 's daughter did not care for shell-fish , so they were forced to start dinner with caviare . |
| 11 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 12 | Dorothy did not care for books , so Helen became a librarian . |
| 13 | The studies reported in this table did not control for maturity or seasonality effects in the distribution , that is , they studied the distribution of futures price changes or returns across all seasons of the year and for a variety of contract maturities ( maturity effects on the distribution are discussed in Chapter 8 , while seasonality effects are considered in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 14 | Inevitably , the image of his father , the image of his family , the image of his class , were at the forefront of this searing reappraisal : When my father was fifteen years old , he did not go for holidays on beaches , as I did with his money . |
| 15 | Sam ran off across the yard ; he did not appear for lunch . |
| 16 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 17 | Parke B. , at p. 630 , concluded that the payment ‘ was not voluntary , because , in effect , the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk , that if he did not pay for certificates when he wanted to make extracts , he should not be permitted to search . ’ |
| 18 | And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible |
| 19 | The limiting of television pictures to black and white only ( colour did not arrive for BBC 1 until late 1969 ) was frustrating to Designers like Cusick , more inspired by the colour and splash of the Theatre . |
| 20 | They did not talk for talking 's sake , in the artificial manner that human beings — and sometimes even their dogs and cats — do . |
| 21 | She did not stay for coffee . |
| 22 | He did not stay for coffee but left the hotel and walked down the almost deserted main street . |
| 23 | There were seventy- five paintings in the exhibition and by the time I left , which was quite early as I did not stay for dinner , most of the pictures had a little red sold label . |
| 24 | Welcome though these provisions were , they did not cater for activities such as investment management or investment advice in areas other than in securities dealings . |
| 25 | While in the case of the press alternatives were difficult to find , in that of radio other stations existed that could be listened to if the national station was found to be boring or did not cater for listeners ' tastes . |
| 26 | ‘ He did not change for death till about four o'clock on the day he died . |
| 27 | He replaces Berndt Schultz , the Fair 's founder , who did not stand for re-election . |
| 28 | European leaders who had feared since Korea that America 's relentless anti-Communism would end in disaster gave Johnson little support and he did not stand for re-election in 1968 . |
| 29 | He did not stand for re-election to the Parliament of 1780 ; but he was elected for Ripon in 1787 , and became a commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1788 . |
| 30 | However , she did not stand for re-election in 1979 . |