Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [not/n't] even [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 2 | Many men simply assume that women are on the Pill and do n't even bother to ask . |
| 3 | We can make another baby , Herta and I. If I wept copiously both before and after , she let me do it , or try it , but I am impotent and do n't even go to the whores any more . |
| 4 | ‘ And do n't even think about trying to double-cross me . |
| 5 | " And do n't even think about lying to me , " Katherine whispered , her voice sending a chill through him . |
| 6 | Others overlook this opportunity to share their interests with parents and do n't even seem aware of their parents ' need for mental and emotional stimulus . |
| 7 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 8 | Erm s so you 've now got the situation in modern times where people probably go out to work all day , come home at the end and do n't even know who the names of the people living next door to them . |
| 9 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 10 | His clothes are in rags , and do not even cover his private parts . |
| 11 | Yet there is no heaviness here : the ribs are pure decoration and do not even follow their expected course ; they end abruptly as if there is no final solution . |
| 12 | It is true in general , in spite of the fact that philosophers by no means speak with a single voice , and do not even agree among themselves about what they understand philosophy to be , since the nature of the subject , its preoccupations and methods , is itself a matter of philosophical disagreement . |
| 13 | On her return , Ashraf reported directly to her brother and did not even send the foreign minister a copy of her conclusions . |
| 14 | To his credit , he excoriated the lack of safety at the circuit , had the highest praise for the drivers who pulled Niki out of his burning car and did not even think in terms of his now enhanced championship chances , not only because he thought Niki would be back in Austria , but because he was honest enough to know that without the accident and Jochen having to re-start , he might himself have placed no better than third . |
| 15 | Some wills assumed this as an inexcludable entitlement and did not even mention it . |
| 16 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 17 | Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education . |
| 18 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 19 | So on top of the five shows and rehearsals every day at the Rex , they did another four at the Olympia and did not even receive double salaries but only one and a half . |
| 20 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 21 | These candidates simply vomited over the page everything they knew upon the two topics ; they made no attempt to bring their knowledge into relation with the question , and did not even divide off their answer by the ( a ) and ( b ) of the question . |
| 22 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 23 | Schinkel came specially to see the Docks , and did not even like Nash 's Regent Street . |
| 24 | She was incredibly sexy and did n't even realise it ! |
| 25 | Last night they went to a back-street sauna , chatted politely , stripped , had sex with complete stranger , got dressed , went home , and did n't even trade phone numbers . |
| 26 | We were in a hurry , and did n't even stop at a motel on the Friday night , driving 1,400 miles at a stretch . |
| 27 | She turned and ran with her bike the way she had come , and did n't even stop to jump on again , until the-cows were out of sight round a bend ! |
| 28 | Yet she was n't afraid and did n't even bother to open her eyes to find out if she would have to get up and run with Gloria for the shelters . |
| 29 | Papers abroad realised they just could not match us — and did n't even bother to try . |
| 30 | I have in mind a large ball , organised by and in aid of the Book Trade Benevolent Society ( since it failed to put on its annual Carol Service last month and did n't even bother to tell anyone ) , at which the whole book business could get together and celebrate the introduction of the new VAT regime as a way of warding off the post-Christmas blues . |