Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 2 | If charges are intended to raise money , it seems odd not to impose them for staying in hospital or visiting a GP . |
| 3 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
| 4 | Living in close intimacy with Jean-Claude had not prepared me for confronting in musical shape the qualities I sensed and loved in him but could not define . |
| 5 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 6 | We do not condemn him for having being successful , but we do condemn a social security system which is prepared to help Mr Deaves indefinitely when other struggling families who do not meet the DSS 's criteria are thrown out of modest homes . |
| 7 | All marriages are special occasions but a second marriage is a doubly precious time because you do not take everything for granted . |
| 8 | But Mills warned : ‘ We can not take anything for granted . ’ |
| 9 | But Mr Lyall will not take anything for granted even though Ipswich are 10 points clear at the top . |
| 10 | We can not take it for granted any longer that the division of Germany is sustainable ; in consequence , the whole European security order may be unstable . |
| 11 | The idea of taxing what most people regard as their birthright , fresh air , is startling , but perhaps Tolba is right : we should not take it for granted . |
| 12 | Let us not take it for granted . |
| 13 | The ethnomethodologist does not take it for granted . |
| 14 | A reminder that he should not take it for granted that he would in time succeed to England , Normandy and Anjou ? |
| 15 | Do not take it for granted that Accounts will be paying up the way you want or that suppliers will stay with you if they do n't get paid on time . |
| 16 | So you can not take it for granted . |
| 17 | For that reason we should take extra care that we do not take it for granted or abuse it . ’ |
| 18 | My dear George YOU WILL not thank me for congratulating you on a lucky escape . |
| 19 | ‘ Your God would not thank you for throwing away your life . |
| 20 | Movements in foreign exchange rates will affect the sterling value of the principal deposited or borrowed and your finance director will not thank you for saving £50,000 by earning interest at 1 1/2 % above UK rates if you lose £1m when the foreign currency is reconverted to sterling . |
| 21 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 22 | Future generations will not thank us for spending our energies and money on nuclear weapons , and on the unseemly attraction of enormous wealth to a tiny minority in north America and western Europe while the majority of the population of the world sees nothing but environmental destruction and the continuing decline in living standards . |
| 23 | She might say , and I would not blame her for saying , that the Strangeways riot and the riots associated with it have given cause for a total and radical rethink . |
| 24 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 25 | ‘ Now , sit in this chair next to me , ’ he said , and with a sudden change of tone and manner , said , ‘ You must not blame us for keeping up such high standards of public behaviour . |
| 26 | She did not blame herself for going on the cruise , although she sensed that Adam , always an opportunist , had taken advantage of her absence . |
| 27 | ‘ I can not blame you for helping your wife . |
| 28 | Caernarfonshire captain Dave Wallace said Llandudno had not engaged Barnes as a professional and did not pay him for playing . |
| 29 | Davis is not taking it for granted . |
| 30 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |