Example sentences of "not [verb] a damn " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 2 | I said , not caring a damn so long as she was here . |
| 3 | ‘ Tom 's a good fellow , if unpredictable and inclined not to give a damn for anyone else . |
| 4 | This time she yelled his name , not giving a damn if she looked a fool , and dived after him . |
| 5 | I mean , why would anybody cover a Monkees song that everybody in the world f—ing knows off by heart and not do a damn thing with it ? |
| 6 | A government committed to the disciplines of the market had had a salutary lesson : the market did not care a damn for the long term , or strategic thinking into the middle of the next century , or , quite possibly , sustainable development . |
| 7 | She did not care a damn whether the information was protected or not . |
| 8 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 9 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 10 | None of these special Cabinet committees really did anything : it did n't matter a damn that people like Wedgie [ Mr Benn ] and me were not on SEP [ Steering Committee on Economic Policy ] or OPD [ Oversea Policy and Defence ] . |
| 11 | ‘ He does n't do a damn thing for the good of mankind , but makes one hell of a fat living by buying cheap from one worker and selling the same thing dear to another worker . |
| 12 | He does n't do a damn thing , he does n't even pay his wife wages — I give up ! ’ |
| 13 | We still do n't give a damn that X died last Sunday . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Do n't ask me I do n't give a damn , next stop is Vietnam . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't give a damn for your envy . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | They did n't give a damn for what we call reason , they were liable to act wickedly at a moment 's notice . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | He followed me , almost in tears himself , and said that he did n't give a damn for his bloody socks . |
| 22 | We were not allowed to get up early without permission , but I did n't give a damn for that . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | As long as the planes came to drop his explosives he did n't give a damn for the rest of the war effort . |
| 25 | " I do n't give a damn one way or the other . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't give a damn , ’ Becky adds . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I could n't give a damn how it looks to you ! ’ she retorted angrily . |
| 29 | And I do n't give a damn if you want me here or not . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 … ’ |