Example sentences of "n't [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't intended for the profound jottings which occur in the back of the van after a gig ( to be auctioned at Sotherby 's when you are dead ! ) . |
| 2 | You ca n't answer for the other officers but you can answer for yourself . |
| 3 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 4 | I ca n't wait for the mini series . |
| 5 | An absolute winner — I ca n't wait for the new items in the series . |
| 6 | Somebody Who Ca n't Wait For The New Morrissey Record , Milan |
| 7 | When intercepting a desired track QDM do n't wait for the exact Track QDM . |
| 8 | They do n't act for the governing body , by any chance ? ’ |
| 9 | But do n't opt for the obvious solution : cutting the stuff into stunted threads is practised only by the infantile . |
| 10 | A Protestant woman , naturally , I do n't speak for the other sort . ’ |
| 11 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 12 | I did n't know what I expected ( chanting and rune casting , perhaps ) , but I was n't prepared for the tingling sensation affecting the areas of my body immediately underneath her small hands . |
| 13 | They did n't work for the Labour Party , which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice . |
| 14 | A piece of fundamental fieldwork : people do n't look for the unexpected . |
| 15 | What will happen in fact is that you 'll have a start date for your system , which was basically when N1 was , and what they will be looking for is that everything from that date forward is complying right so that a job that started before then , they wo n't look for the initial part of that job to comply right as of that date onwards they will look for it to comply . |
| 16 | But that does n't follow for the liberal democrats in this particular council . |
| 17 | The company is n't waiting for the 64-bit Sparc parts it originally intended to use but , like its ICL cousin , is expected to use existing superscalar Sparc CPUs from Texas Instruments Inc and the Ross Technology Inc unit that Fujitsu is acquiring from Cypress Semiconductor Corp ( UX No 436 ) . |
| 18 | get away from here , I ca n't see for the flaming |
| 19 | Andersson has n't played for the Belgian club for three months . |
| 20 | Taylor said : ‘ Freidle would n't meet the criteria for a work permit if he has n't played for the full international side of a country that does n't have a high standard of football . |
| 21 | The slogans of the main parties could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for the other party ’ ; and the only person rising in the polls was the leader of the Liberal Democrats , whose message could be summed up as ‘ Do n't vote for negative campaigning ’ . |
| 22 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 23 | You have n't gone for the Enigmatic or Hordes Of Locusts style of material . |
| 24 | Clint Eastwood ‘ When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher 's knife and a hard-on , I figure he is n't collecting for the Red Cross , ’ Dirty Harry |
| 25 | I wish I had n't asked for the damned drink now . |
| 26 | ‘ And I do n't go for the fancy decorations and general hoo-hah . |
| 27 | And it 's funny an' all that the dirty buggers do n't go for the ragged-arsed lot that 's swarmin , the place . |
| 28 | You do n't , so you do n't go for the new ones you just ca go back to the beginning of the list ? |
| 29 | Mother never stopped telling me she did n't care for the lax morals that had become so fashionable since the outbreak of the war . |
| 30 | Dickens regards the behaviour of Mr Guppy as ‘ usual ’ in people who go over houses : ‘ They straggle about in wrong places , look at wrong things , do n't care for the right things , gape when more rooms are opened , exhibit profound depression of the spirits , and are clearly knocked up . ’ |