Example sentences of "[vb past] not [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 . |