Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My mother said with patient scorn , ‘ Speaking of Derek , we 'd better ring him and make sure he has n't forgotten about the wedding . ’ |
| 4 | At Southampton a man in a pin-striped suit said he would prefer not to talk about the crash . |
| 5 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 6 | The team did not issue a statement and staff were told not to talk about the operation . |
| 7 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 8 | Du n no about the bleepy cover of the old Traffic song on the CD , ‘ Low Spark of High Heeled Boys ’ , but Derry at least seems like his old fey self . |
| 9 | The border , well I du n no about the bor . |
| 10 | No I du n no about the toilet . |
| 11 | The midfield 3/4 , presumably including Macca & Strach , will have to get their act together , and lets not beat about the bush , ‘ drop the dead f*****g donkey ’ and play Wallace and Forrester up front . |
| 12 | I thought you preferred not to know about the mechanics of miracles . ’ |
| 13 | Superintendent Robertson did not care about the mutterings from the lower ranks against her strict disciplinarian attitude . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He did not care about the money . |
| 16 | A man who did not care about the consequences of his actions . |
| 17 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 18 | He really did not care about the effect of his actions . |
| 19 | She did not think about the thing inside her now . |
| 20 | Eliot did not beat about the bush . |
| 21 | ‘ You did not speak about the Royal Academy if you pretended to be interested in modern art , ’ said one young critic . |
| 22 | Observers said this week that it was significant that Morling did not rule about the possible effects of passive smoke on the unborn child . |
| 23 | She did not bother about the rest of the book . |
| 24 | One thing I did not like about the aircraft was the flap lever which is mounted on the left side of the aircraft and needs a hefty pull to operate . |
| 25 | The Civil Justice Review found that a third of banks and building societies , and a fifth of local authorities , did not enquire about the debtor 's circumstances before the hearing . |
| 26 | If he did not understand about the unicorn or about the many and the one he understood Marian still less when she talked about simple things being difficult . |
| 27 | ‘ Lord Aldington did not know about the massacre and brutality . |
| 28 | When we first arrived home from Hong Kong , we did not know about the aorta problem , so two days after our homecoming Michael went to London for a further two days of meetings . |
| 29 | A day later , Edouard still did not know about the baby . |
| 30 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |