Example sentences of "not [verb] about a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I said , ‘ I can certainly not write about a real place : I 'd be arrested ’ ’ |
2 | So your talking about a big space , your not talking about a small office . |
3 | The thing , two things that struck me about it , one of which is that we were not talking about a separate soundtrack , the actual existing soundtrack of the film is merged with the audio description |
4 | We 're not talking about a major business park for Greater York . |
5 | Now I 'm not talking about a loud , wild time or a side-splitting , back-slapping drunken knees-up . |
6 | You are not talking about a little state . |
7 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
8 | Even now Hillary is quietly garnering her own forces — and we are not talking about a social secretary and party faithful volunteers to answer the phones . |
9 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
10 | As long ago as 1915 Scott published the first research on interviews showing that 6 personnel managers could not agree about a common set of applicants , a finding that has been replicated innumerable times and will be reflected in the personal experience of most interviewers . |
11 | One can not generalize about a greater receptivity among Protestant clergy toward the new cosmology . |
12 | I thought , Do n't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase . |
13 | Fucking balaclava more like it , do n't know about a fucking hat ! |
14 | ‘ I do n't think you do , do you ? ’ said Quiggers , ‘ I think you think , as I do , that Old Mother Walsh was n't talking about a real snake . |
15 | You do n't care about a poor girl , alone and brutally murdered ? |
16 | Pickerage does n't worry about a little thing like that . |