Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you mind not pressing her about the drowning ? |
| 2 | We 're not announcing anything about the team at present . |
| 3 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 4 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 5 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 6 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 9 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In a day-long hearing students who oppose the plan say academics broke college rules by not consulting them about the plan . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I am not saying anything about the short or long-ball game , only what is right at the proper time . |
| 14 | It should be noted that the relation sign does not indicate anything about the nature of the relationship between two subjects , but merely states that two or more concepts are treated in relation to one another in a document . |
| 15 | Rachel had already decided not to mention anything about the new MO at OBEX . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you not tell him about the Englishman ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And , no , we did not tell her about the dog collar . |
| 18 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
| 19 | I have no doubt wha did I not tell you about the fact that I hit the roof when he said that she has said that when he was twenty one , she was going to buy him a Vauxhall Chevette . |
| 20 | One lesson seems to be that we can not tell anything about the consequences of taxation . |
| 21 | Thus : surprise can not tell us about the development of the central systems . |
| 22 | Agreeing that naïve empiricism is insufficient and that language does not tell us about the world in any simple , unmediated , or transparent way , they still believe that a sense of reality can be conveyed by language ( the position derided as mere ‘ common sense ’ by the Newest Criticism ) . |
| 23 | However , they do not tell us about the complex subjective processes which this involved . |
| 24 | It can not tell us about the meaning of the term ‘ popular music ’ , since that meaning , ideologically replete , has been pushed outside the frame of reference . |
| 25 | The other factor to consider is that the figures do not tell us about the amount of borrowing which comes about from increases in mortgages used for purposes other than house purchase . |
| 26 | The House will be interested to hear from another Scottish Labour Member of Parliament who will not tell us about the Labour party 's policy on Ravenscraig . |
| 27 | Fazisi does not tell us about the birth of the dream and the background of the person who was the heart of it as Maiden does , it is not as personal . |
| 28 | It was Boyle 's contention that if William Harvey had not asked himself about the purpose of valves in the veins , he might well not have discovered the circulation of the blood . |
| 29 | Gilliland is at pains to point out that this does not prove anything about the way eternal influences affect the workings of the weather machine . |
| 30 | But it does not reveal anything about the non-human or about the nature of the universe in general . |