Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | My agenda does not matter ( though I maintain my status in not revealing anything about myself ) . |
| 2 | Do you mind not pressing her about the drowning ? |
| 3 | We 're not announcing anything about the team at present . |
| 4 | He blamed the suppliers of the chemicals and British Steel , who contracted him to do the work , for not warning him about the safety procedure . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ Craig said softly , ‘ it 's my fault for not warning you about Spencer . |
| 6 | By your own admission , when you 're not quizzing him about everything , you 're confronting him and toying with the idea of hitting him . |
| 7 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 8 | He was taken , not recalling anything about the journey , to the home where his father was ; one inmate was kept above stairs , the other below . |
| 9 | In a day-long hearing students who oppose the plan say academics broke college rules by not consulting them about the plan . |
| 10 | This is because in saying what something looks like to me I am not saying something about something other than the thing I am looking at , its look . |
| 11 | But if , in saying ‘ I meant … ’ , one is not saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ , what is one saying ? |
| 12 | We 're not saying anything about Raine . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not saying anything about it . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get at it , but I 'm not saying anything about the ideas behind it 'cause people will be doing it before I get the chance . ’ |
| 15 | I am not saying anything about the short or long-ball game , only what is right at the proper time . |
| 16 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 17 | we put people off going , so I 'm not saying anything about it , not erm , I do n't , I mean , I do n't , I could say what the story of Major Barbara is , but then it 's not in any of the printed pamphlets for sighted people , therefore , should I , what should I do Cathy I do n't know |
| 18 | The Blues boss said today : ‘ I am not saying anything about our actual selection until we have had a couple more training sessions . |
| 19 | I said but I shall be wrong for not saying anything about you coming to work drunk . |
| 20 | Linda knows what it is , but I 'm just not saying anything about it . |
| 21 | Every time I look at her she makes me feel guilty for not doing something about her . ’ |
| 22 | If you 're feeling overweight and under-exercised , help is at hand — in the shape of a whole range of new excuses for not doing anything about it . |
| 23 | I , I mean , I at the moment I 'm not doing anything about Neil 's training because we 've got coming and it 's it 's too soon to start stirring up the bud again . |
| 24 | They 're not doing anything about it |
| 25 | Sadly , the whole of the White Paper is an exercise in putting up ideas but then not doing anything about them , and it 's a tragically wasted opportunity . |
| 26 | I mean there 's carnage on these roads of ours , and people are just not doing anything about it or taking it seriously enough . |
| 27 | Despite not committing himself about specific grievances , Woolf believed that genuine injustice contributes to a lack of legitimacy which in turn makes disorder more likely . |
| 28 | the alien arrived on earth , not knowing anything about our way of life |
| 29 | It is tempting to push the blame , as some young mothers do , on their own mothers for not telling them about sex and contraception . |
| 30 | Rain stood in the street with the open page in her hand and cursed Wainfleet for not telling her about it . |