Example sentences of "[conj] not [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we may expect , know or not know about our audience can present other dimensions of difficulty and challenge . |
| 2 | But like a blood relation I ca n't dislike her or not care about her . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'd find it for you fast enough , ’ he went on , either not noticing or not caring about the embarrassment of his host . |
| 4 | ‘ There are times when I wish she could have a couple of years off to bring up her children , be at home with them , and not worry about anything else apart from them and her husband . |
| 5 | ‘ We have always said if we are going to be successful you have just got to try and keep winning and not worry about other results . ’ |
| 6 | Using the timer also means that you can experiment to optimise the exposure times with different makes of sensitised boards and not worry about under- or over-exposure . |
| 7 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 8 | He and Maureen decided to live for the day and not worry about what the future would bring for them , good or bad . |
| 9 | In fact I just stand in the middle of the bedroom looking like a favourite rich uncle on a flying visit from South America , urging her to choose where she 'd like to eat , and not worry about the cost . |
| 10 | She would take things as they came and not worry about motives , she decided . |
| 11 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
| 12 | ‘ I decided to hit every shot in a relaxed manner and not worry about the result . |
| 13 | We beat them , so now they can concentrate on the league and not worry about the cup and risk more injuries , because what they want to do most of all is get back in division one and as a soon as they do that they 'll drop back down again , because they 're not that good really . |
| 14 | ‘ How could you do all this and not remember about it ? |
| 15 | Doctors can ask us all sorts of intimate questions and expect honest answers ; in return , we expect them to treat this knowledge confidentially and not to gossip about the state of our health . |
| 16 | And yet he was , he said , preoccupied with Keynes and not thinking about sex at all . |
| 17 | Tonight , she would rest and not think about her future until the morning . |
| 18 | Common sense told me the news would break sooner or later , even if it was n't until my funeral , so on first being diagnosed , I had rung Clifford , with a statement to give to the press , should it become necessary , to the effect that my job was to make people forget their problems and not to talk about mine . |
| 19 | Everyone agrees that if the service is to be seamless there are enormous benefits in having people providing care across the health-social care boundary — ‘ one person providing bathing , bandaging , and hoovering ’ — and not bothering about who pays . |
| 20 | I said it 's about time you started looking after yourself and not bothering about ! |
| 21 | She said to tell you she was glad it worked all right , and not to worry about paying her back until you were quite better . |
| 22 | I wonder if it is because the prevailing attitude to life in the Eighties in Britain seems to be to look after number one , to get on , to make money , and not to bother about anyone else ? |
| 23 | In the United Kingdom there is no breathing space , no fallow time when a local party can sit back and not worry about politics . |
| 24 | As Debbie observed , she could eat and eat and not worry about getting fat . |
| 25 | First they happen in June that 's that 's a good starter for one , and they 're really not that big a problem and I guess people in London would just laugh at the prospect of the noise which which May Balls cause and not worry about it in one way and would not have telephone calls to the local council and lots of stories in my newspaper every year . |
| 26 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 27 | Also , why do so many franchised Land Rover agents give the impression that they would rather sell complete vehicles and not bother about spare parts ? |
| 28 | And not bother about . |
| 29 | Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to . |
| 30 | ‘ They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about . |