Example sentences of "bother [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might ask yourselves why I bother writing this , but I get kind of worried when I hear such news . |
| 2 | I do n't know why you bother doing that ! |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know why you bother doing all this by hand . |
| 4 | Could you be bothered getting that out unless you 're prepared wash all , all the bits afterwards . |
| 5 | Ah well I ai n't , I ai n't bothered getting any videos recently , I just have n't . |
| 6 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 7 | Oh I wo n't bother writing this |
| 8 | You could tell a St Andrews ' native , he said , because he does n't bother replacing these thin wafers of turf . |
| 9 | She had no intention of handing the joint back , but I did n't bother fixing another for Melanie and me . |
| 10 | ‘ Why bother going all the way to Paris to do it ? ’ |
| 11 | Do n't bother coming this week . |
| 12 | I wo n't bother having that drink . |
| 13 | two pints , two pints of beer before lunch mind you times were hard , that 's why I did n't bother having any thing , I always went home weekends and got stocked up and every thing , every other one we got boarders in |
| 14 | Adding up to ten fine , adding up to twelve that 's good that 's useful , adding up to sixty one do n't bother doing that again better concentrating on these . |
| 15 | And er there 's quite a number of years h he , there was many bicycle shops in Galashiels when the new safety bike came in , and blacksmiths probably did n't bother doing any work on them . |
| 16 | Well I certainly would n't bother taking any shampoo if you ca n't have a hair drier . |
| 17 | As he began another story he paused and turned to Jimmy Currie with a twinkle in his eye : ‘ Do n't bother taking this one down Jimmy — I got it from you– . |
| 18 | I just ca n't buy it , I 'm sorry but if the author is going to put elements , a political element into it , he must be steering the audience towards something , because why bother putting all these points up , because everybody realises , what the cold war is |
| 19 | If we conduct an interventive experiment , and inject a drug which results in an animal not performing some task on which it has been trained ‘ correctly ’ ( I wo n't bother putting that word into inverted commas henceforward ; I have already spelled out that what we read as correct in an animal 's behaviour is interpreted by our criteria , not necessarily by its own ) , how can we be sure that what has been blocked or disturbed is the memory rather than the motor or sensory activity on which its expression depends ? |
| 20 | Because we 're not bothering watching any more now . |