Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he falls asleep , one arm outflung across her breasts so that she does not dare move it for fear of waking him , and , constricted , can not sleep herself . |
| 2 | But what you are saying is you 're not going to give it for free ? |
| 3 | You know , they 're not going to do it for nothing . |
| 4 | I 'll have a go , but I 'm not going to do it for two or three |
| 5 | There are a few well-rehearsed cases in which all the information provided by a text is not used to interpret it For example , people often fail to see what is wrong with asking of an air crash on a national frontier ‘ where were the survivors buried ? ’ or they fail to see why saying that a book ‘ fills a much-needed gap ’ is an insult to its author . |
| 6 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 7 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 8 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 9 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 10 | The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence . |
| 11 | The grantee was morally a custodian of the land , and not entitled to use it for his own purposes . |
| 12 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 13 | ‘ Would n't it buy something for the girls here or put someone through school even if you did n't want to take it for yourself ? |
| 14 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 15 | It 's a long trip , and I would n't want to do it for nothing . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't want to spoil it for everybody . ’ |
| 17 | SR can not be all things to all women — it must be a reflection of the concerns of its editors , like any magazine and we must remember how harmful struggling for control of our ‘ tiny slice ’ of power can be and put our astonishing energy and feeling into creating a world in which we can expand and fill our rightful share of Smiths with our chosen , positive images of women — the men are n't going to do it for us . |
| 18 | ‘ She listened to me and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , darling , but I was n't going to do it for you . |
| 19 | I was n't going to leave it for much longer at all . |
| 20 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 21 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , we would n't have missed it for anything ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for anything . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 25 | We would n't have missed it for anything . |
| 26 | Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did . |
| 27 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 28 | I wonder whether they were n't trying to get it for the museum . |
| 29 | You were n't planning to use it for any of your own guests , were you ? ’ |