Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should not joke about the unseen world , ’ said Leonard . |
| 2 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps not , but then I 'm not writing about the ancient world . |
| 4 | ‘ You did not speak about the Royal Academy if you pretended to be interested in modern art , ’ said one young critic . |
| 5 | There is one thing I can not understand about the Labour party policy . |
| 6 | Although they had not talked about the weird reality of Northern Ireland since her arrival , in Manchester Jessica occasionally had a little rant . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ Sven Hjerson said , ‘ you have not thought about the wrong handbag . ’ |
| 8 | it does not boast about the wonderful lunch he had at company expense , |
| 9 | Is he not worried about the rising scale of explosions and the rising tide of murders that are taking place ? |
| 10 | After the timid The Maggie ( 1953 , High and Dry in US ) , Mackendrick 's Ealing oeuvre culminates in The Ladykillers ( 1955 ) where a gang of bank robbers , masquerading as an unlikely string quartet , engages in a battle of wills with an unutterably sweet and totally irritating landlady , symbol of Ealing 's ( and England 's ) determination not to think about the modern world , smothering the horrors and the nightmares in gentility . |
| 11 | But , let me say by way of rejoinder , there is no necessary reason why things should not come about the other way round — with the personality regression preceding the growth in power of the state — and that even if this is a functional , rather than causal , relationship , it is nevertheless a significant one . |
| 12 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 13 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 14 | I am not talking about the ongoing struggle towards black liberation , for there is much more to the emancipation of blacks than opposition to racism . |
| 15 | I 'm not talking about the bloody money . |
| 16 | Different thoughts , but one thought : Secord would suddenly explode to the interpreter , ‘ He 's still not talking about the god-damned hostage thing ! ’ ; or , in North 's exasperated words , ‘ if we 're really sincere about this whole friggin' thing … they ought to be exercising every possible amount of leverage they 've got to get those people out . ’ |
| 17 | Oh you 're not talking about the ehm , you not , you not talking about the old club down , ehm . |
| 18 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |
| 19 | With a violent gesture , Katherine pulled her dress over her head , not bothering about the hideous bra her mother had bought her and forced her to wear to bind her small , pointed breasts . |
| 20 | Paraphrasing brings the key factor , phrase or word of the question to the surface and forces you to answer it , not write about the main topic . |
| 21 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 22 | The state here is only a collection of functionaries , so it does not care about the aesthetic condition of the buildings it administers . |
| 23 | They did not care about the burst tyre — all 14 inches and $400 of it — and could hardly be bothered to check the rest of the car . |
| 24 | Why not talk about the wonderful coastline , the lovely villages and the many excellent restaurants in the region ? |
| 25 | I 'd be intrigued to know what those other two couples who were not informed about the cancelled christening feels . |
| 26 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 27 | On August 8 Johnny Marr , who was n't consulted about the above communication , issued this reply to the NME : ‘ There is nothing approaching acrimony between myself and the other members of the band . |
| 28 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 29 | I mean , I do n't know about the emotional thing — that 's between the two of you — but I 'm sure he 'll stop the rough stuff . ’ |
| 30 | Whoever had been there before me did n't know about the spare key because the glass in the top half of the door was shattered and the door was open . |