Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] n't [vb infin] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I 'm saying to you is , erm I do n't expect for one minute to have a computer installed in my office , ccessdon'tw alter it to that a particular way , and |
| 2 | At the heart of the mother 's fury was the fact that the teacher was a self-confessed lesbian — and apparently added insult to injury by assuring the mother : ‘ I do n't go for young girls . |
| 3 | ‘ And I do n't go for the fancy decorations and general hoo-hah . |
| 4 | I assure you , I do n't go for scarlet chairs , black carpets and purple and pink curtains , any more than you do . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't go for women , and I never have . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As gorgeous as she is , I do n't go for women like Cavell Fielding . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't go for blondes . |
| 8 | ‘ Women are a great idea , ’ Crawford had said the previous year , ‘ but I do n't go for this marriage bit . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't go for redheads . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't go for that child , he 's too big man . |
| 11 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 12 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't suppose for a moment that anyone has asked her , ’ said Penelope . |
| 14 | I do n't suppose for one minute that it is that simple but could you please advise me ? |
| 15 | I do n't suppose for one moment that man fully understood the import of what he was saying . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not that I do n't long for my former mate , But because of you I wo n't reach my flock . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My dear , I do n't mean for your professional expertise . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't mean for his fear to be confirmed — that he was sightless ; the unspoken query which hovered over us for those few days . |
| 19 | erm actually I do n't mean for a gipsy site it 's sort of two people have applied to have ordinary caravans there , like holiday caravans , etc . |
| 20 | that 's what I do n't want for it to er |
| 21 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 22 | OK , maybe it seems harsh , but I do n't think I 'm the only one who gets slightly bugged by dropouts trying to make me feel like I 'm insensitive and uncaring if I do n't pay for their drink . |
| 23 | I knocked the guy out in my last fight in 20 seconds and that 's good promotion — but I do n't care for it . |
| 24 | OUP , £25 ‘ I DO N'T care for life if I ca n't fill it with work , ’ Annie Besant often declared to her friends . |
| 25 | I do n't care for that kind of meanness . |
| 26 | He never cared for me nor I do n't care for him . |
| 27 | I do n't care for the practice of polling because of polling because it is direct descendant of that fraudulent invention sociology . |
| 28 | I ca n't put it off , I do n't care for anything but the work ; that is to say , the pleasure in something else ceases at once , and I become melancholic when I ca n't go on with my work . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't care for being laughed at . |
| 30 | And although a lot of the very late ones , in the way of paintings , I do n't care for , many of his drawings in the last period of his life were wonderful , were n't they ? |