Example sentences of "did not [vb infin] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He did not gain many public commissions , because he did not care for architectural competitions . |
| 3 | Maldon were met with stiffer resistance in the second half and did not score for 20 minutes , until scrum-half Willcocks dived over in the corner . |
| 4 | There , I did not eat for two weeks , and Bothwell 's children — there were two babies — were born dead . |
| 5 | Octreotide concentrations dueing CSOI did not change for two hours after meal consumption ( results not shown ) . |
| 6 | In the 1880s , the large herds of the kingdom of Karagwe in western Tanzania were severely depleted by rinderpest , and did not recover for several decades . |
| 7 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 8 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 9 | Earlier Neil Kinnock , the Labour leader , hoped it would be demonstrated that Sir Nicholas did not speak for other Tories ‘ because the gutter language he used is not fit for anyone standing for a democratic party ’ . |
| 10 | And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground . |
| 11 | More than usually generous credit terms may have to be offered , and although we did not allow for introductory discounts in our example , these may have to be offered to induce custom , with the degree of generosity perhaps varying by assessment of likelihood of payment and repeat orders . |
| 12 | The analysis did not allow for other components in the familial aggregation . |
| 13 | Helens ' overall allocation was low because it did not bid for new places and put any proposals to tackle its serious surplus place problem . |
| 14 | This meant that , as a county , it was significantly smaller than it later became , and that ( in particular ) it did not include for local-government purposes the city of Oxford . |
| 15 | They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations . |
| 16 | Immobile , barely breathing , Maria did n't speak for several seconds . |
| 17 | He did n't speak for ten minutes when his wife said she was expecting . |
| 18 | After the game we were held for exactly one hour , then herded onto to a train which did n't move for 40 minutes . |
| 19 | The telephone did n't function for two days ; the mattress was uncomfortable , and the hot water was prone to run out . |
| 20 | Jones , 20 , suffered sickness and diarrhoea and did n't eat for five days . |
| 21 | The fact that you did n't ask for personal recommendations , it 's not my fault . |
| 22 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 23 | I do know about actresses such as Patrice Charbonneau , who did n't work for several years after starring in the lesbian love story Desert Hearts . |
| 24 | did n't understand for two years I mean told the regulator |