Example sentences of "not do for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although this might be tenable for booming Babergh , it will not do for depressed Coventry where many masters were quite poor , and John Langwood ( craft unstated ) was not the only employer — in this case of an apprentice — who owned no goods worth assessing . |
| 2 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | But Jesus said , ‘ anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 5 | Jesus Christ said : ‘ Anything you did not do for one of these , however humble , you did not do for me . ’ |
| 6 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 7 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 8 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 9 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 10 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 11 | It is hitting even my constituency in a way it has not done for many years . |
| 12 | Naked , she walked into the bathroom and there surveyed herself in a way she had not done for some years . |