Example sentences of "[pron] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She planned to say nothing about her ram-raid revenge — but contacted police to confess when they appealed for witnesses . |
| 2 | Both have replied saying while they are sympathetic , they can do nothing about her situation . |
| 3 | We know nothing about her family . ’ |
| 4 | He said nothing at all about his angry chase after her and nothing about her fear . |
| 5 | Juliet had told her a little about her own adoption , and her search for Elaine , but nothing about her talk to Celia and her great-aunt . |
| 6 | This means that Clegg has an even more unreal , fantasized image of Miranda , as he knows virtually nothing about her real personality . |
| 7 | Expectations of confidentiality and silence prevent many accounts from reaching fruition , for as the revelations of Spycatcher ( Wright and Greenglass 1986 ) revealed , it is not necessarily what is written which causes the pain ; rather it is the breach of the convention which requires members in various arms of the executive to say nothing about their practices . |
| 8 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 9 | But successive generations of young people have embarked on their sexual experimenting without knowing very much about themselves — their own bodies , what turns them on , how they function sexually — and knowing virtually nothing about their partners . |
| 10 | Fourteen per cent ( 29 ) did nothing about their incontinence when it first occurred — the main reason being that it was ‘ not important enough . ’ |
| 11 | Tony knew nothing about their conversation . |
| 12 | There are no minutes or other official reports and nothing about their drafting . |
| 13 | Her eyes were bright and her face pink , but she said nothing about their encounter with Matthew and Sara felt it would be prying to ask questions . |
| 14 | In Austria , they do n't absolute in the , I mean I know nothing about their industrial places at all . |
| 15 | First , though MI5 is notionally under the control of the Home Secretary he will be told nothing about its day-to-day operations . |
| 16 | We know nothing about its rulers , except for one about the time of the conquest , whose name began with the letter ‘ A ’ . |
| 17 | But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist . |
| 18 | Although the dust jacket tell us virtually nothing about his career and qualifications , Frossard clearly has close knowledge of the contemporary literature of pure and applied human genetics , and he writes with felicitous clarity . |
| 19 | The fact that a teacher has a secondary education and a framed certificate tells us a little about his potential , but practically nothing about his actual value in the classroom situation . |
| 20 | He said nothing about his suspicion , instead asking me to remind him of how Masquerade had become damaged . |
| 21 | Sunil 's family knew nothing about his club deals . |
| 22 | She knows nothing about his businesses . |
| 23 | He communicated nothing about his sporting ambitions to his mother with whom he lived in Rugby . |
| 24 | I realized I knew almost nothing about his background . |
| 25 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 26 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 27 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 28 | ( 3 ) On the other hand , if the buyer says nothing about his future intentions this may merely serve to fuel rumours that a full bid is to be expected . |
| 29 | ‘ And you knew nothing about his family when you finally succumbed to his persuasion ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And , having known him two months , ’ the prosecution was going on , ‘ you found out nothing about his background ? ’ |