Example sentences of "[vb past] not give a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 2 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 3 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 4 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 5 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 6 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 7 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 8 | ‘ Did n't give a tuppenny damn really . |
| 9 | Those old 2-D screens did n't give a good picture . |
| 10 | They did n't give a damn for what we call reason , they were liable to act wickedly at a moment 's notice . |
| 11 | He followed me , almost in tears himself , and said that he did n't give a damn for his bloody socks . |
| 12 | We were not allowed to get up early without permission , but I did n't give a damn for that . |
| 13 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 14 | As long as the planes came to drop his explosives he did n't give a damn for the rest of the war effort . |
| 15 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 16 | But Peter was already hurrying down the steps and did n't give a backward glance . |