Example sentences of "and [vb past] not [verb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By tea-time I was aware of walking strangely , and dared not run for the little beeps my botty made . |
| 2 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 3 | They had to face reality and did not pine for what was not possible just got on with life as best they could . |
| 4 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 5 | He was diagnosed anti-depressants by his doctor but failed to take them and did not return for a check up two weeks later . |
| 6 | In the 1880s , the large herds of the kingdom of Karagwe in western Tanzania were severely depleted by rinderpest , and did not recover for several decades . |
| 7 | She heaved out a great sigh and did not move for a full fifteen seconds : the sergeant watched them tick past , marked by the flick of the thin red hand of the electric clock on the wall . |
| 8 | She saw herself , and did not care for what she saw . |
| 9 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 10 | This approach proved impractical and inflexible and did not allow for innovation or different national traditions . |
| 11 | Bouch 's bridge was made mainly of wrought iron and did not allow for the movement so essential in bridges of that type . |
| 12 | He said because it had to cross the busy East Coast line at Darlington the timing was crucial and did not allow for a call at Allen 's West . |
| 13 | He nodded assent , and did not ask for a reason . |
| 14 | It was caught in the coarse fish closed season and did not qualify for record status . |
| 15 | People she had known forever , many of them , and had not seen for ages . |
| 16 | Crewe are top of div 3 by 8 points , and had not lost for about 15 games , so were always going to have confidence , good organisation and scoring ability . |
| 17 | Castro later stated that he favoured political and economic integration with Latin America but had not come begging for aid and had not asked for oil supplies to replace the potential loss of shipments from the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 19 | She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights . |
| 20 | Operating problems with the computer reservations system had resulted in a backlog of 10,000 bookings needing to be rechecked , making it impossible to tell who had and had not paid for tickets . |