Example sentences of "[verb] not bother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gorbachev has not bothered to hide his disapproval of the way Mr Ceausescu and his family have ruled Romania . |
| 2 | ‘ We desperately need to do controlled experiments in space , ’ says Smith , but NASA has not bothered . |
| 3 | Often the bookseller or cataloguer has not bothered to identify the arms , so that a good deal of pleasure can be obtained from rectifying their indolence or ignorance . |
| 4 | I have challenged the prospective Labour candidate in Harrow , West to do so , but he has not bothered to reply . |
| 5 | It is regrettable that , yet again , the Labour Member for Bristol has not bothered to turn up . |
| 6 | She knows you 'll be going to see her anyway , so has n't bothered to reply . |
| 7 | On the other hand , one could give Sharon the benefit of the doubt and conclude she has n't bothered to wear knickers because she knows Michael will probably mash her against a wall and rip them off anyway . |
| 8 | The result is that the reader feels lost — because the writer has n't bothered to say where they are . |
| 9 | Jones said : ‘ He has been told to lose weight since Christmas but he has n't bothered himself . ’ |
| 10 | And he has n't bothered . |
| 11 | On the desk and she has n't bothered probably with the cheque . |
| 12 | In any case , big birds tend not to bother cracking nuts , but swallow them to be pulverised with grit in their muscular gizzards . |
| 13 | Users of conventional vector drawing programs like MacDraw have often faced the frustrating task of re-drawing all their work in Illustrator and , like me , have probably decided not to bother . |
| 14 | We have decided not to bother . |
| 15 | The fact we were chatting about a programme on Radio 4 while standing on a dainty platform hundreds of feet tall seemed not to bother him . |
| 16 | Do any better do n't bother dealing . |
| 17 | And then you have to what you 'll have to do erm do n't bother to change the telly for the moment . |
| 18 | So I do n't it do n't bother me . |
| 19 | So everyone tends not to bother . |
| 20 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 21 | A lot of them I Some I was told not to bother with . |
| 22 | I said just do it and I said thing is if she just ignores you I said you know not to bother next year . |
| 23 | Watson , wondering whether to pass it on , quickly concluded that North was ‘ playing a game of being important and secretive ’ , and decided not to bother . |
| 24 | I mean , you know she could have not bothered after all . |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's because so many people are opting not to bother . |
| 26 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 27 | Others , seeing what so many people put themselves through in the quest for slimness , just decide not to bother . |
| 28 | If it is left as an optional extra , it 's too easy to forget about it or to decide not to bother . |
| 29 | No , I 'm taking not bothering . |
| 30 | It did not bother Haslam that he had to rely to a large degree on the expertise of others to perform his own job well . |