Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 2 | While you are confused , why not prepare yourself for a chat with your bank manager ? |
| 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| 4 | Cunningham 's chummy dropping of the ‘ Mr ’ from his name did not fool him for a moment : the withdrawn and irascible figure he had encountered in mid-afternoon was nearer the soul of this man than mine accommodating and smiling host of the Skein of Geese 's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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |
| 7 | Paint and varnish slow down moisture changes in wood but they do not prevent them for no paint is impermeable to water vapour . |
| 8 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 9 | Then , although I did not believe them for a moment , I stored them away in my memory against a rainy day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 14 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you do not weigh yourself for a month , finding a 4 lb ( about 2 kg ) gain might be something of a surprise . |
| 17 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 18 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 19 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 20 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 21 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 22 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
| 23 | ( Note that you can not nominate yourself for a place . ) |
| 24 | Why is it that those countries can accept basic , decent minimum standards for their people whereas this Government will not accept them for the British people ? |
| 25 | Brian did not say anything for a moment . |
| 26 | Blanche looked at Lancaster with a quizzical smile and did not say anything for a full ten seconds . |
| 27 | He did not say anything for a few moments and then he shrugged and gave a sharp laugh . |
| 28 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
| 29 | ( Jakobson associates relationships of contiguity with the figure metonymy , and those of equivalence with that of metaphor , a point which need not concern us for the moment , but which will become relevant in the discussion of Lacan later . ) |
| 30 | Apart from anything else , I ca n't help feeling that if women let men get away with too much bad behaviour , men do not forgive them for the burden of guilt they then have to bear . |