Example sentences of "did not [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It did not aim for the situation that we 've been discussing , where people are trying to get the information . |
2 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
3 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
4 | Esther sent a card to Alix , too , but Alix 's mother forwarded it accidentally-on-purpose to the wrong address possibly because she did not care for a rather elaborate allusion to Lacrima Christi in the text , nor for the brightly coloured shiny modern Madonna which the card portrayed . |
5 | He refused an invitation from the EC 's energy authority to investigate the possibilities of translating electricity , generated within green plants , into a new source of fuel : he did not care for the clause giving the EC the right to suppress anything in the eventual reports . |
6 | So there were many , even among teachers , who , being university orientated , did not care for the Council . |
7 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
8 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
9 | Hazel did not care for the look of the trees . |
10 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
11 | Most of them did not control for a possible confounding effect of H pylori infection . |
12 | He did not appear for the second-half of the match , which ended in a 1-1 draw , raising fears the knee had been badly damaged and that his career would again be threatened . |
13 | Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | From the 19 patients with reflux oesophagitis , one subject did not arrive for the second measurement and dropped out . |
16 | They did not talk for a minute or so , studiously examining every inch of the tablecloth or the other diners . |
17 | Nenna did not answer for a second , and Tilda bellowed : |
18 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
19 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
20 | But relations between the youngsters and their adult minders did not change for the better . |
21 | On the dining-room walls today hang generations of Macleods ; Boswell and Johnson were entertained by the 23rd chief , Norman , who did not marry for a decade after the travellers stayed here . |
22 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
23 | But in the isolation that their riches had brought about , and in their serene acceptance that privilege was their due , they did not anticipate for a moment the press of people Don Antonio Beatillo 's idiosyncratic will would bring to their door . |
24 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
25 | The farmer did not reply for a moment , then he went up between the cows and gently rubbed Blossom 's forehead " Aye , this is the one , Jack . " |
26 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he did not sit for a degree . |
27 | He was diagnosed anti-depressants by his doctor but failed to take them and did not return for a check up two weeks later . |
28 | He too listened closely to the arguments in the morning , but after a pub lunch with his staff , he did not return for the afternoon evidence . |
29 | At lunch-time it was noticed that the ‘ patient ’ had disappeared , and he did not return for the start of the afternoon session . |
30 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |