Example sentences of "did [not/n't] [verb] for " 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 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 3 | Their success at the game did not make for an easy relationship , though . |
| 4 | Needless to say , this attitude did not make for a good marriage . |
| 5 | Of course he had some other assets , but the collapse of the central part of his fortune did not make for buoyancy . |
| 6 | This reciprocal position did not make for sincerity and real understanding . |
| 7 | And even that did not make for encouraging listening . |
| 8 | But the victories of the court 's opponents did not endure for long . |
| 9 | The place suddenly had its history of bloodletting to be sniffed , and yet even that was not exciting , maybe because the Nîmois did not roar for blood as the Romans had , but sunned themselves and discussed finer points of capework . |
| 10 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So there were many , even among teachers , who , being university orientated , did not care for the Council . |
| 13 | Hoomey did not care for him much . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was finding he resented people who did not care for Wyvis Hall as much as he did . |
| 16 | The Judaism of the Pharisees and Scribes did not care for the lost . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He did not care for sending his friends and subjects to their deaths but in order to preserve the realm there was little else he could do . |
| 19 | This , Jaq did not care for one little bit . |
| 20 | The dean 's daughter did not care for shell-fish , so they were forced to start dinner with caviare . |
| 21 | Basil Rocke did not care for H.M.I.5 ! |
| 22 | Hazel did not care for the look of the trees . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She did not care for the serious young men who toured the Home Office and the Treasury with her . |
| 25 | I did not care for him . |
| 26 | Dorothy did not care for books , so Helen became a librarian . |
| 27 | She saw herself , and did not care for what she saw . |
| 28 | He could hear the men beginning the old bawdy ‘ Thousand and One Nights of the Wolfking ‘ , which had been written about Cormac , and which Lugh did not care for overmuch , because even if you discounted half the things it said , you were still left with a patently exaggerated tale . |
| 29 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 30 | Now he sat by the fire with his whisky , a drink he did not care for , making conversation with Tony and hoping that it would soon be time for bed . |