Example sentences of "[Wh pn] could [not/n't] be bothered [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working with a group of trainee student teachers and a class of 6 year olds , he began a graphic story of a fictional medieval knight living in a castle who could not be bothered to lock the postern gate one dark , cold , rainy night . |
| 2 | Folly nodded , trying not to show her distaste , even though she privately thought that any man who could n't be bothered to remember his wife 's birthday did n't deserve to be married . |
| 3 | No doubt some of the same ‘ gentlemen ’ who could n't be bothered to remember their wives ' birthdays were equally glad to be relieved of the responsibility of remembering their mistresses ' . |
| 4 | I just wasted a whole day to see someone who could n't be bothered to turn up . |
| 5 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |