Example sentences of "not [verb] for them " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not answer for them . |
| 2 | I can not answer for them . ’ |
| 3 | Our support can only be effective to the extent that these universals obtain ; it certainly can not substitute for them . |
| 4 | The Act was not designed for them . |
| 5 | It made sense to assume that Yuan and Zukov would throw themselves to the right of the line of fire , but he did not wait for them to act . |
| 6 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 7 | I can not speak for them . ’ |
| 8 | They could not provide for them from their own resources , he alleged , and hence resorted to war , pillage and brigandage in order to sustain their followings . |
| 9 | ‘ And I 'm not paying for them if they 're not what I want . |
| 10 | And even if they had , who could say that Christ had not died for them also ? |
| 11 | Joan asked whether her brother would be charged with murder if she did not work for them . |
| 12 | Nor does he consider the possibility that some pupils may find that the approach does not work for them . |
| 13 | ‘ I do not fear for them , ’ he said . |
| 14 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 15 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 16 | The theory of politics argues , on the supply side , that political parties , in bidding for support , end up by promising more than they can deliver and that , on the demand side , this leads to inflated expectations since the electorate have incentives to vote for increased services because they do not pay for them directly and because there may be little correlation between tax payments and government benefits . |
| 17 | The king , however , did not pay for them , not least because he was saving by this means the need to provide the beneficiary with a pension from the exchequer . |
| 18 | Second , the electorate will have every incentive to vote for more government services because they do not pay for them directly and individual tax payments may bear little ( if any ) relationship to the benefits which they may derive from such services . |
| 19 | The seller need not deliver the goods and the buyer need not pay for them . |
| 20 | What does his patients charter offer to the thousands of patients who , through the College of Health helpline , have chosen a hospital with a shorter waiting list , but can not get into that hospital because their health authorities will not pay for them to be treated there ? |
| 21 | It is important to note that in any case this question of the essence of religion is to be debated by pupils , not assumed for them . |
| 22 | Levi defines long-firm fraud as referring to businesses which order substantial quantities of goods on credit at a time when the owners of the business either intend not to pay for them or suspect that they will not be able to pay for them . |
| 23 | In such cases , the dancer has to submit to the discipline of style and context dictated and not created for them . |
| 24 | It costs £700 a year to keep a child in a council day-nursery , and only children in real need — i.e. those whose mothers can not or will not care for them adequately at home — will get a place . |
| 25 | I suppose you might not care for them , in which case you might as well be miserable at home . |
| 26 | Moreover , these dependent people do not reach a social services department in most cases unless the family can not care for them without help . |
| 27 | Look , for instance at all the lonely old people whose families do not care for them . |
| 28 | Mr. Barry Jones : Instead of making pussy-footing radio statements on the 1,000 steel job losses , why did the Secretary of State not fight for them ? |
| 29 | From these , it is clear that a buyer can be owner of the goods even though he has not paid for them and even though they remain in the seller 's possession . |
| 30 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |