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

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1 A consequence of this duty is that a fiduciary must make available to a [ customer ] all the information in his possession which is relevant to the [ customer 's ] affairs ; ( 4 ) The duty of confidentiality : a fiduciary must use information obtained in confidence from his [ customer ] , the beneficiary , for the benefit of the [ customer ] and must not use it for his own advantage or for the benefit of any other person .
2 We should not do it for our sex .
3 The idea of taxing what most people regard as their birthright , fresh air , is startling , but perhaps Tolba is right : we should not take it for granted .
4 A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ?
5 We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks .
6 Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours .
7 However , the man with the radio at the final door worked for TAP , the state airline , not the airport , so he could not open it for us .
8 The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore .
9 More than that , and far worse , he is aware that he could not have it for himself even if it did exist .
10 He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went .
11 ‘ You could n't stand it for a second . ’
12 Uncle Mosse had wanted to be dead there , and since he could n't achieve it for himself , his clothes had done it for him .
13 Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday .
14 ‘ Yes , ’ I answered , ‘ but I could n't do it for ever .
15 anyway she said , er Catherine said she was surprised that the woman could n't do it for me , before the end of June
16 Shame you could n't have it for your birthday .
17 Mind you , Gedanken could n't see it for long .
18 well you could but you could n't sell it for a reasonable price .
19 Oh no you could n't get it for singer .
20 ‘ We could n't afford it for our honeymoon , but we always promised ourselves , half jokingly , that one day … ’
21 If it were not human you would not want it for research and if it was not human no one would deny you having it for research . ’
22 I would n't swop it for anything . ’
23 I 'm not telling you which way I vote but I would n't change it for anybody . ’
24 My life has changed and I live around the horses and would n't change it for the world now .
25 ‘ I would n't do it for anybody else on the staff , but you 're the best worker we 've had here . ’
26 ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it .
27 If you did n't do that they would n't do it for you , they would n't pull them for you , would n't do anything .
28 If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see .
29 have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant .
30 ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’
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