Example sentences of "not to mention [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name Smith and its offshoots — Smithe , Smyth , Smythe , Syme , Smither , Smithers , Smitherman , Smythyman , Smithie , Smithye and Smythye — plus its relational offshoots Smithson , Smythson , Smission , not to mention such forms as Whitesmith and Goldsmith and the less obvious Faber ( Latin faber = smith ) and Angove ( Cornish an = the , and Old Cornish gof = smith ) , form a formidable list of names from a single occupational group . |
| 2 | Frieda has styled hair for celebrities like Jerry Hall , Jane Seymour , Glenn Close , not to mention many Royals . |
| 3 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 4 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 5 | She said Copper had a 50:50 chance but that his leg may break at any time , not to mention all the problems that come with keeping a horse standing up and not moving for what could be months rather than weeks . |
| 6 | Now the person does not exist who is going to travel through life without experiencing the highs and lows — not to mention all those feelings in between — and indeed it would be a pretty boring life if that were the case . |
| 7 | Not to mention all the other expenses that arise just when you can least cope . |
| 8 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 9 | One hundred and twenty outfits , not to mention all the shoes and hats and gloves . |
| 10 | In my view a late-night show pairing Jameson and Clary would wipe out the entire listenership of Radios 1 , 3 , 4 and 5 , not to mention all commercial stations . |
| 11 | This will flatten the stomach , not to mention all but the most robust of deckchairs . |
| 12 | Not to mention all the people who worked for them . |
| 13 | Christ ; those five murdered guys , not to mention all the others McDunn 's investigating , and this guy leaving this afternoon . |
| 14 | There are many more DOS packages than Windows ones , not to mention all the shareware . |
| 15 | ‘ Not to mention all the other young men you hang around with . |
| 16 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 17 | Not to mention all the horrid underarm deodorants leaching into the microclimate . |
| 18 | The lure of live music-making is , of course , irresistible : the sense of occasion , of which Karajan was himself a great provider , the throng of music-madded fans and aficionados , not to mention that bear-baiting element Glenn Gould was always so amusing about , as soloists are led out and put to their instruments before the attentive crowd . |
| 19 | Grade decided that the complaints from parents and teachers that kids were arriving late in class because of the series — not to mention that nagging suspicion that placing Neighbours on before the evening 's news bulletin could be a ratings coup — should be ignored no longer . |
| 20 | If the weight of figures — not to mention that of a young nation 's hopes and dreams — threatened to submerge this crisp-cutting , inordinately patient , technically impeccable batsman , there was precious little to submerge . |
| 21 | ‘ It might have been more diplomatic not to mention that possibility . ’ |
| 22 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |
| 23 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 24 | The scent of victory was in my nostrils , not to mention that other , more earthy aroma . |
| 25 | Viola fixed him with her most commanding stare : ‘ Much better not to mention that , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself . |
| 27 | The event was run by the USTA , ( which provided national coaches Nick Saviano and Lynne Rolley , not to mention former US Open quarter finalist Rodney Harmon to assist the youngsters ) , and the Safe Passage Foundation , ( a body committed to using sports as a vehicle to provide ‘ safe passage ’ for youths and young adults into productive adult lives ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , ’ Belinda murmured , thinking that it was typical of Dr Russell not to mention this illustrious connection , which she found a little intimidating . |
| 29 | ‘ You mean , despite the rose , the candlelight and the unsurpassable view , not to mention this rather excellent wine from my own cellars , you still regard me as Bluebeard ? ’ |
| 30 | Finally , several photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazine articles concerning the line , not to mention several books containing pictures illustrating articles . |