Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessie did not return home for several hours . |
| 2 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 3 | These fag-ends did not augur well for any public announcement that might be made . |
| 4 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 5 | I did n't stay there for that . |
| 6 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 7 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |
| 8 | How was she to explain that she did n't go in for this high-profile look ? |
| 9 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 10 | He did n't come back for several hours , afraid of Mum 's temper but Dad said he would replace the mirror and this seemed to pacify her . |
| 11 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 12 | It did n't take long for some bright spark to try out the Doom Diver Catapult in a battle . |
| 13 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 14 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 15 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 16 | erm , and er , sometimes even pleased to say well I 'll try to get you in purple , but er , nowadays erm , we , we do n't go in for that because there 's , there 's so many er shops now that selling lighting fittings erm and selling nothing else , there is n't one actually in Harlow , but there 's one in Epping and there 's one in Stortford , erm that er , it 's , it 's riding a new car people want to see er a good variety of them , have a look at a lot or a washing machine or anything like that , you want to see many before you buy one . |
| 17 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 18 | They do n't go in for this sort of thing . |
| 19 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |
| 20 | We do n't go in for this , this cult er type of politics . |
| 21 | You do n't show up for any of them . ’ |
| 22 | Who said ‘ P*** off , we do n't get up for another hour . |
| 23 | And we 'll sort out last week 's postal competition so do n't ring in for this one and the question was , What 's this got to do with a company ? |
| 24 | The present legal position does not cater adequately for such contingencies , as Greengross ( 1986 ) has cogently pointed out . |