Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you mind not pressing her about the drowning ? |
| 2 | He blamed the suppliers of the chemicals and British Steel , who contracted him to do the work , for not warning him about the safety procedure . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ Craig said softly , ‘ it 's my fault for not warning you about Spencer . |
| 4 | By your own admission , when you 're not quizzing him about everything , you 're confronting him and toying with the idea of hitting him . |
| 5 | In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it . |
| 6 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 7 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
| 8 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 9 | I had not told her about my summons to the Palace , but when I appeared in a tail coat , this unusual costume , combined with the insistence on punctuality , led her to make an accurate deduction . |
| 10 | As she closed her eyes , she wondered why she had not told them about Ben right from the beginning . |
| 11 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 12 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 13 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 14 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 15 | Liability beyond the legal requirements of the countries defined in the territorial limits , for any car which belongs to or is being bought by you or your wife or husband , or is being leased by you , and which you have not told us about . |
| 16 | This idea that protect children , not tell them about what 's happening , I mean if anybody can protect them to that extent when even Neighbours is put at a different time on the television , you know , erm that somehow we make them warm and secure by not telling them , to me that is making them dependent and unable maybe to cope later on in their lives . |
| 17 | In a day-long hearing students who oppose the plan say academics broke college rules by not consulting them about the plan . |
| 18 | Greg did not enlighten him about his real origins . |
| 19 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 20 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
| 21 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 22 | When Martin Bean returned with Alice — an Alice who was tear-stained but still young enough for tears to be part of the simple process of healing — Emmie and Oliver did not tell him about Mr Hellyer . |
| 23 | Her last nurses did not tell her about her daughter 's terrible fate . |
| 24 | ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar . |
| 25 | Faith did not tell me about this , you know , she would have realised how angry I should be . |
| 26 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
| 27 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 28 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 29 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 30 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |