Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 2 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 3 | This suggests that something is amiss with the job definition and , by implication , also with education and training which does not prepare them for the reality . |
| 4 | His mother had not joined them for the meal , bowing in this regard to the T'ang 's wishes . |
| 5 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's oak-panelled restaurant . |
| 6 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 7 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 8 | He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie . |
| 9 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 10 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not saving it for the Tour de France . |
| 12 | ‘ Who indeed ? ’ she asked , not believing him for a minute , ‘ But rather arrogant of you to assume I would be willing to be caught . ’ |
| 13 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 14 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 15 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 16 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 17 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 18 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 20 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 21 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 22 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 23 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 24 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 25 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 28 | ‘ I ‘ m not doing it for the money . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not doing it for the money , ’ said the new Bob . |
| 30 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |