Example sentences of "not [vb pp] what the " in BNC.

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1 Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town .
2 Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat .
3 But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected .
4 REPLYING to the letter from Brian Hunter ( HAS March 30 ) in relation to food for diabetics in hospital , he has obviously not understood what the trouble was .
5 Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed .
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