Example sentences of "do not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And even that did not make for encouraging listening .
2 This , Jaq did not care for one little bit .
3 I decided that she had never really liked Richard and wrote her an angry letter attacking a Labour politician I knew she particularly admired , saying he did not care for Socialist principles and was no more than a cunning man who would do anything for power .
4 He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions .
5 Barton did not care for Indian food and ate sparingly from the vegetarian buffet .
6 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 .
7 They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base .
8 And he will answer , ‘ I tell you this : anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me. , Matthew 25 : 31 — 46 New English Bible
9 But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’
10 Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’
11 My grandmother was taken ill with a burst ulcer and an ambulance was called for her at 10.45 , but it did not arrive for two and a half hours .
12 Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable .
13 There , I did not eat for two weeks , and Bothwell 's children — there were two babies — were born dead .
14 Octreotide concentrations dueing CSOI did not change for two hours after meal consumption ( results not shown ) .
15 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 .
16 Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail .
17 The heat did not last for more than a few seconds , and when it had passed , Ciparis was left in an awful solitude , his cries for help going unanswered as the city burned above him .
18 The undeniable literary qualities of the novel did not compensate for these ideological shortcomings .
19 The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses .
20 Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ .
21 Biddy did not speak for some time , and stood considering them in a way that made them all feel about half their usual size .
22 Sesostris did not speak for some time .
23 Unfortunately , we did not anticipate the importance of observer bias , and we did not arrange for third party blinded observation .
24 The question did not arise for those settling in their state 's colonies , who could continue to remain Englishmen or Frenchmen in New Zealand or Algeria , thinking of the old country as ‘ home ’ .
25 And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground .
26 More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders .
27 The analysis did not allow for other components in the familial aggregation .
28 The bond 's conditions did not allow for this , so even if bought and transferred at less than par between individuals , they had to be redeemed by the Club in full .
29 The programme was devised in response to feedback from the previous term 's courses on assertiveness and time management , which suggested that one day courses did not allow for adequate reflection on the issues , practice or follow up discussion .
30 Helens ' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem .
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