Example sentences of "n't [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones , 20 , suffered sickness and diarrhoea and did n't eat for five days . |
| 2 | Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves |
| 3 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 4 | The solution is to invest money which you wo n't need for some years , say five or more . |
| 5 | ‘ People are going on as if there is a crisis at Blackburn because we have n't won for seven weeks , but we 've only been beaten twice this season and if that 's a crisis God help us . ’ |
| 6 | Yes , we have , I mean other types of , of clips that we would n't show for different reasons , for instance we , we got one last week where a chap was decorating his lounge and he 'd locked the camera off on himself , but he had no clothes on , nothing funny happened , he was just decorating with no clothes on . |
| 7 | The family of a woman who died from cancer are claiming that she was n't fed for four days while she was in hospital . |
| 8 | He did n't speak for ten minutes when his wife said she was expecting . |
| 9 | Immobile , barely breathing , Maria did n't speak for several seconds . |
| 10 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |
| 11 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 12 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 13 | What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ? |
| 14 | There 's only Mary and the sisters you have n't seen for ten years , if you can count them . |
| 15 | Obviously I get the odd pains from it because I 'm doing things I have n't done for 15 months . |
| 16 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 17 | But this afternoon she was n't looking for spare rides . |
| 18 | She had the impression that she had n't smiled for several months . |
| 19 | Look at this kid : eighteen years old , three in the morning , has n't slept for two nights . |
| 20 | I have n't slept for two years |
| 21 | Or : ‘ Jane Ryle says she has n't slept for three nights . ’ |
| 22 | One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked . |
| 23 | ‘ Noriega looked like a man who had n't slept for 20 days , ’ said Mr Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 24 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 25 | Of course , this wo n't work for all cases if any of the last three fields are sometimes blank , although the WHILE condition could be amended to ‘ NOT ( ISBLANK ( [ Field13 ] ) AND ISBLANK ( [ Field14 ] ) AND ISBLANK ( [ Field15 ] ) to trap some of these . |
| 26 | It wo n't work for political reasons — it 's one con-trick too far . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed . |
| 29 | But do n't look for instant results . |
| 30 | And I heard the girl saying well I do n't look for smart shoes now . |