Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 3 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 4 | It was obviously made to stand up with its foot on something which at first I could not make out for all the dust and dirt but eventually realised was a skull . |
| 5 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 6 | If names can not or will not pay up for 1990 and 1991 , the central fund could quickly be exhausted . |
| 7 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We are not a national daily ; we do not go in for moral crusades . ’ |
| 9 | Parker did not go in for German beer . |
| 10 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 11 | He 'll not come down for two week ! |
| 12 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 13 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 15 | You do n't show up for any of them . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why I wo n't speak up for fat people ’ by She-Devil star Julie T Wallace |
| 17 | WHY I WO N'T SPEAK UP FOR FAT PEOPLE ! |
| 18 | ‘ I already wear a lot of Joe Bloggs ’ stuff because I do n't dress up for special occasions . |
| 19 | And we 'll sort out last week 's postal competition so do n't ring in for this one and the question was , What 's this got to do with a company ? |
| 20 | The snow did n't slack off for 36 hours . |
| 21 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 22 | I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't have missed doing this for the world , but I would n't sell up for another . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's no reason why I ca n't go on for 200 goals and I do n't agree with the argument that you should retire at the top . |
| 25 | ‘ And she did n't go in for violent amateur dramatics with a bunch of friends ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't go in for other stuff , ’ he said . |
| 27 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just that I do n't go in for casual encounters . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't go in for serious boyfriends . |
| 30 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |