Example sentences of "[vb base] not give a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inventories , therefore , do not give a complete picture of a person 's wealth . |
| 2 | The perception of their situation by the unemployed must be changed , and if you do not give a higher expectation to people , how could you motivate them to participate in training schemes ? |
| 3 | He also ignored the fact that the majority of other European Community members do not give a compensatory day off when a national holiday falls at a weekend , as is normal practice in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | These levels are misleading any way because they do not give a true indication of the ‘ quality ’ of the protein . |
| 5 | Data collected from a renal unit do not give a true reflection of need as general practitioner and consultant referral rates may be influenced by their perceptions of the services available . |
| 6 | Such studies do not give a true reflection of population needs , nor may the clinical indices used to predict survival or estimates of prognosis be applicable in the wider population of patients with severe acute renal failure . |
| 7 | They were joined by up to a dozen others by the end of the decade but , since the records do not give a clear indication of how far treatment was effective , there can be no precise figure for the number of serious cases at any one time . |
| 8 | There is a strong moral argument within the labour movement , that rejoke rejects workfare and other half-baked schemes which do not give a fair day 's work for a real fair day 's pay . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't give a goddam . |
| 10 | They do n't give a lazy damn . |
| 11 | We still do n't give a damn that X died last Sunday . |
| 12 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 13 | Do n't ask me I do n't give a damn , next stop is Vietnam . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't give a damn for your envy . |
| 15 | Deputed to get his own disguise , he went off fuming to a wig shop : ‘ And the lady started to go through all kinds of salesmanship to sell me the wig and if I wanted to swim , I did n't want to swim , and I 'm sitting there knowing that this meeting is going to start very soon and I can not — lady , let's get on with it , I do n't give a damn , just give me a wig . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't give a damn for what is fashionable , ’ he said , ‘ and I do n't want to write about characters just because they 're fashionable types . |
| 17 | ‘ As long as you are well and are nice to me , ’ he wrote , ‘ I do n't give a damn if everything else goes wrong . ’ |
| 18 | " I do n't give a damn one way or the other . " |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't give a damn , ’ Becky adds . |
| 20 | And I do n't give a damn if you want me here or not . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't a clue why you behave in the way you appear to behave and I honestly do n't give a damn … ’ |
| 22 | I do n't give a damn really ! |
| 23 | to why Easter egg being related to Easter egg , they do n't give a damn , they just want to eat them |
| 24 | I do n't give a damn , as long as you do the activity . |
| 25 | I do n't give a damn , I do n't give a damn . |
| 26 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 27 | I do n't give a bent penny for his pathetic TEAM . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're an arrogant little shit , and this is the way we treat arrogant little shits round here , and we do n't give a flying fuck who your fucking parents are ! ’ |