Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] bother [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I do n't even bother to take off my gown , which is all smeared and tyretracked . |
| 2 | I do n't even bother to speak French . |
| 3 | Then there were other names — Raymond Williams , someone with a name like a chamber pot , Fry — after a time I did n't even bother to learn the names . ’ |
| 4 | I du n no , I have n't even bothered to look ! |
| 5 | His replacement , Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Monro , who did not even bother to land on the peninsula , declared for evacuation . |
| 6 | I plead for help , to you who caused my suffering , and you do not even bother to reply ! |
| 7 | She did n't even bother to move the bike . |
| 8 | She did n't even bother to reply . |
| 9 | There can be no justification for the comments we have heard from certain leaders of right wing er trade unions , who wish to take away the very principle of what we 're talking about , the block vote , especially one , when one of 'em , allegedly , who have n't even bothered to pay their contributions to the General Election Fund . |
| 10 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 11 | For the second question and answer we did n't even bother to load the camera , though as a matter of courtesy , we let him carry on bawling . |
| 12 | Although ales represent around a fifth of the nablab sector as a whole , The Brewers ' Society says it is ‘ so small a market that we do n't even bother to quantify it . ’ |
| 13 | One does not usually bother to mention it , but we shall make it explicit this time . |
| 14 | If we return to the theory we started with , we will realise that we have not even bothered to decode the message . |
| 15 | It seems their relationship was so informal they did n't even bother to exchange surnames , ’ she added bitterly , before thrusting a slip of paper into Gina 's hands and continuing bleakly , ‘ Wendy wrote down the address of the flat for me . |
| 16 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 17 | They did n't even bother to use the gate but swung their legs over the low railing and walked straight in among the stones to where the girl was . |
| 18 | In the wake of Wang 's going Chapter 11 , a bon mot dropped from Scott McNealy 's lips to the effect that things are so bad in Massachusetts now they do n't even bother to plough Route 128 when it snows . |
| 19 | the first year and the most you get out of them is they do n't even bother to come and see you in the corridor do , who went down ? |
| 20 | They do n't bleeding bother to come up so it 's only like a Sunday in n it ? |
| 21 | He waved a disdainful hand at her holstered gun , which they had n't even bothered to remove . |
| 22 | Many of them do not even bother to collect rents . |
| 23 | Typically he did n't even bother to consult anyone . |
| 24 | He did n't even bother to deny this Harvey business when I accused him . |
| 25 | Flinging open the door of his office so that it hurtled back against the wall , he did n't even bother to answer . |
| 26 | He did n't even bother to look at him . |
| 27 | You know , he did n't even bother to reply ! ’ |
| 28 | It could have been a personal call , but Doyle 's sixth sense for trouble was registering so strongly , that he did n't even bother to hope . |
| 29 | He could not really account for what he did , moving from duty to duty like a sleep walker , so buoyed up he did n't even bother to study the stars that night , in spite of the sky being cloud free . |
| 30 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |