Example sentences of "n't even [verb] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
| 2 | Braden did n't even offer to pay him for the ticket . |
| 3 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 4 | Donna did n't even bother to acknowledge his ramblings now , her mind was too occupied . |
| 5 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The Yanks did n't even bother to screen it , but we Brits lapped up the handlebar-moustachioed plotting and a-planning of David McCallum and Robert Wagner , not to mention the dastardly swagger of Nazi stereotype Anthony Valentine , who became a sex symbol . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Typically he did n't even bother to consult anyone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | So you take issue both with the very idea of ‘ the normal ’ and ‘ normalization ’ , and with the fact that the authorities do n't even bother to fulfil their professed |
| 13 | It now seemed that Rose could n't even bear to touch him . |
| 14 | He said they were so shocking he could n't even bear to repeat them . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't even bear to think it . |
| 16 | The police ca n't even decide to charge someone , t is the Crown Prosecution Service who must decide whether or not they 're going to charge someone . |
| 17 | There is a black box marked process and we have n't even begun to open it . |
| 18 | she did n't bring me any , she did n't even think to bring me my washing . |
| 19 | I think the authorities then were so used to keeping everything secret , they did n't even think to tell us . |
| 20 | Half my clients do n't even want to let me know what they 're up to . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've thought so much more about you since I imagined you did n't even want to see me again . |
| 22 | I do n't even want to see you ! ’ |
| 23 | I did n't even want to see it . |
| 24 | I became so quiet and lonely and sometimes I did n't even want to see my husband ( after my daughter was born and when she was a baby ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't even want to ask anything . |
| 26 | If she rang Tony to warn him , Damian would guess that she had done so , and she did n't even want to consider his rage if he did . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't even want to hear you saying his name again , especially that ridiculous abbreviation you keep using . |
| 28 | We did n't even attempt to fly them , although they were ‘ bating ’ in the wind . |
| 29 | I ca n't even afford to have my own children . |
| 30 | Lindsey did n't even need to ask what the problem was . |