Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israel wo n't and should n't pay for the freedom of Kuwait |
| 2 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 3 | The pause after the first shot making sure they 'd killed him which is n't easy to do with a heart shot but they could n't go for the head because the sight line would n't fit with shooting at the President 's head — ’ |
| 4 | We could n't claim to be anything else ; we could n't speak for the families of Terry Waite or Brian Keenan . |
| 5 | The they used to the Non-conformists whether or not I could n't speak for the Church of England but er there 'd be a lot go you know i in the evening there 'd be several hundred at every one of these places , and there was , there 'd be , ooh four or five Non=conformist places in in . |
| 6 | Erm , well I I could n't speak for the latter two programmes cos I do n't know enough about the arrangements there but I have got a a fair amount of knowledge on both tornado and Eurofighter . |
| 7 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 8 | Twice before she 'd had proposals of marriage and had rejected them because she could n't feel for the men they came from . |
| 9 | She could n't afford to run any risks , and there was certainly something mysterious about David Arrowsmith , something she could n't identify for the moment : so she did n't trust him . |
| 10 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 11 | I could n't wait for the pictures to come out , I was so excited to see them . |
| 12 | great , I could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 13 | could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 14 | could n't wait For the life of Mrs Riley . |
| 15 | As Goffmann points out , the end of conversational encounters carry an increased risk of creating offence — in the sense that careless or perfunctory termination may convey the misleading impression that one could n't wait for the session to end and that as far as one was concerned the whole episode was a waste of time . |
| 16 | I could n't wait for the air raids . |
| 17 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 18 | For the time being she was excused from her prop-room duties and she need n't wait for the curtain call . |
| 19 | Tonally there 's a lot more bottom end than I was expecting , and while it would n't pass for the finest of Martins , it 's good enough to fit into any acoustic line-up and would certainly be bright enough to handle picking and single line solos . |
| 20 | ‘ And I would n't stand for the prima donna behaviour of some of them , either . |
| 21 | ‘ Is there much you would n't do for the $ 87,000 worth of merchandise you have there ? ’ |
| 22 | IT 'S a shot Gary Lineker would n't miss for the world — his baby son George on the road to recovery . |
| 23 | I would n't play for the team if they paid me . |
| 24 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 25 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 26 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 27 | Women might be able to scratch together the fees but they ca n't pay for the child cover . ’ |
| 28 | I ca n't speak for the others , but I do some of it each hour . |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't speak for the food , that 's Kay 's department , but I think I can promise that the tipple will be up to par . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No — but I 'm afraid I ca n't speak for the future . ’ |