Example sentences of "does not [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The royal family does not go in for oratory , so the policy is evident mostly in endless American- and British-made videos on television , boasting of Saudi Arabia 's military and industrial prowess . |
| 2 | The Old Testament does not go in for saints . |
| 3 | Genesis does not go in for saints ( though Joseph will , perhaps , approach that status ) . |
| 4 | That does not fit in with any orthodoxy . |
| 5 | Try and be aware of this as a problem , asking yourself whether the candidate is genuinely not suitable but simply someone who does not fit in with your own picture of yourself . |
| 6 | This is a short excursion which does not fit in with any of the circuits mentioned above . |
| 7 | A Muslim from a poor family in Hyderabad , he does not fit in with the Bombay set . |
| 8 | It may be , of course , that such an inference is wrong , but , as discourse processors , we seem to prefer to make inferences which have some likelihood of being justified and , if some subsequent information does not fit in with this inference , we abandon it and form another . |
| 9 | Fill it in yourself ; your manager , or your union health and safety representative will help you if the layout does not fit in with the incident you want to report . |
| 10 | Sometimes this is desirable because the expression seems awkward or inadequate ; sometimes it signals that the expression does not fit in with the rest of the style ( e.g. because of its register ) . |
| 11 | Almost certainly the child will think of " heaven " as a funny idea which people believe in for some nonsensical reason which does not fit in with a scientific way of looking at life . |
| 12 | Okay that does not fit in with this style of newspaper . |
| 13 | This constant sweeping under the carpet of all information which does not fit in with the Tory vision of a new North does no-one in this region any favours . |
| 14 | The theme of the fourth sentence , Some creators , relates to Rimbaud only indirectly on the basis that poets are some sort of creators , but it does not link in with the theme or rheme of the previous sentence . |
| 15 | The ‘ ofer ’ does not give in to herself . |
| 16 | Sometimes this yarn does not catch in on R1 , but starts its work . |
| 17 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |