Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes is stretched out on her back , and images keep passing through her head : that strange , kindly man is visiting them again , the one who knows all about them and yet has not heard of the Eiffel Tower . |
| 2 | There is hardly a treasure hunter anywhere in the world who has not heard of Charles Garrett , read at least one of his numerous books on the subject , or at one time or another used one of his metal detectors . |
| 3 | Dick fancies that the Examiner has asked him why he has not thought of rigging a drogue ( a thought which has in fact harassed Dick for some time ) . |
| 4 | The solicitor , for example , when interviewing a client has to draw from him by questions many legally relevant facts that the client has not thought of disclosing . |
| 5 | Dot tried not to think of Hitler , nor of Dick Barton Special Agent , nor of the Fifth Columnists , nor of those giant nuns with rifles and huge booted feet beneath their long black skirts who were enemy soldiers in disguise . |
| 6 | Frankie stared at the floor and tried not to think of all the things he might have done , or failed to do , to cause this latest upset . |
| 7 | Zambia tried not to think of the future . |
| 8 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 9 | " I tried not to think of you either , " she said . |
| 10 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 11 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |
| 12 | She tried not to think of her overdrawn bank account and the credit cards she must n't use . |
| 13 | Guy leaned back against the hut door , dragging the cold night air into his lungs , and tried not to think of the anguish in Isabel 's white face , of the tears drowning her luminous grey eyes . |
| 14 | Every now and then Nora took such opportunities to remind Sarah of her fortune ; she tried not to think of it as a kind of hudsoning . |
| 15 | These days he tried not to think of his son too much . |
| 16 | The sky was aflame and though she tried not to think of the sunsets from Fernando 's cliff-top it was virtually impossible . |
| 17 | What photographer has n't heard of Picture Post — though I suppose the American in me world argue that all those magazines were imitators of Life . ’ |
| 18 | Like Stuart pretending he has n't heard of Picasso and Oliver pretending he does n't understand any machinery invented after the spinning-jenny . |
| 19 | quite sure he has n't heard of before . |
| 20 | I get the impression mate honestly that he has n't heard of it , I 'm not sure about but Chris I do n't know , fucking typical |
| 21 | It was quite a car and who has n't dreamed of being a repo man ? |
| 22 | " Because the Threarah does n't like anything he has n't thought of for himself " answered Hazel . |
| 23 | I do n't know why anyone has n't thought of saying it all before . |
| 24 | The farther one went east from the Rhine , or the farther south from the Loire , the more diverse social custom and land tenure became : and above all , the commoner became ‘ allodial ’ land , land not held of any lord . |
| 25 | On the final day of the meeting , progress was overshadowed by the UK 's refusal to agree not to dispose of radioactive waste under the seabed . |
| 26 | " … I would think it a sufficient detriment to the confider that information given in confidence is to be disclosed to persons whom he would prefer not to know of it , even though the disclosure would not be harmful to him in any positive way . " |
| 27 | As a consequence , individuals ( and many measures ) tend not to think of wealth and income as two sides of the same coin , but rather as different segments of that coin . |
| 28 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 29 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 30 | Esther 's biggest regret was the advice she received not to think of having any more children . |