Example sentences of "not [verb] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ishmael had been reared experiencing a hard life in the desert , suffering from hunger , thirst , loneliness — but I need not think about that again — not today . |
| 2 | No , not at all , and then , even in her confused state , her mind shied away from the reasons for her distaste , and she found herself saying even through her pain and shock , ‘ I will not think about that , I will not , ’ and so saying she stopped struggling and sank back into oblivion once more . |
| 3 | But one simply must not think about this ; at any rate , I am enjoying myself while it lasts . |
| 4 | Being British , one would not gush about such things ; winemaker , jazz-lover and poet Andre Ostertag , being French , has no such qualms . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not heard about that . ’ |
| 6 | Zeinab had not heard about this . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the British Army of the Rhine would not confirm or deny whether the documents were genuine , saying yesterday : ‘ We do not comment about these matters . ’ |
| 8 | U K I A S was not consulted about this proposal beforehand and have so far not received any details about it . |
| 9 | Lakeside were not petitioned about this issue , whereas Shakespeare Road , Ruskin Road , Wordsworth Road , Chaucer Road , and Tennyson Gardens were . |
| 10 | Erm they can then feel that their family 's being looked after as well , so it helps them not to worry about that side of it . |
| 11 | Not to worry about that . |
| 12 | It 's probably simpler not to , not to worry about that that 's just a quick a bit of a short cut way of doing it . |
| 13 | The family lived a prosperous middleclass life in Berlin and Ash senior , says Sir Eric , was advised by colleagues ‘ not to worry about this silly man Hitler ’ . |
| 14 | I do not know about that kind of radical suggestion , but the police were very successful last year in closing down four domestic manufacturers of Ecstasy — hence the fact that most of the drug being sold on our streets comes from abroad , some from continental Europe . |
| 15 | ‘ That woman did not know about such birthmarks . |
| 16 | I did not know about any of this , because they had put a sleeping powder in my wine , and I was in a deep sleep . |
| 17 | You do not know about these things . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not writing about this party , are you ? ’ she asks suspiciously . |
| 19 | We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’ |
| 20 | Scientists believe that if something is not done about this problem , glacial ice will melt raising the level of the sea and flooding vast areas of low-lying land . |
| 21 | I 'm not squealing about that . |
| 22 | I prefer not to speculate about that er at this stage , particularly in public session we are tha that is the current estimate of project cost . |
| 23 | Cameron did not mind about that , even when Harvey Broadribb , who had been at Juillard with him , won the Academy Award for his work on the movie . |
| 24 | For the examiner may not agree that the fact is implied in the question ; but he will not mind about this if he sees that your assumption is not the result of carelessness but is your considered interpretation of the question . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I 'm not bothered about that , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Not bothered about that , just want an idea . |
| 27 | I 'm not bothered about that . |
| 28 | I ca , oh I 'm not bothered about that but I ca n't be bothered to buy one just for four |
| 29 | Well you 're not bothered about that anyway |
| 30 | I 've already got one , I 'm not bothered about that , I mean for kids I think , I think it 's a good idea because well then they do n't lay on it |