Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [indef pn] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 2 | I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox . |
| 3 | We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers . |
| 4 | ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’ |
| 5 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
| 6 | In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship . |
| 7 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 8 | The ‘ no meaning ’ theist denies that the theist needs to say anything about the existence of God that is intelligible to those who do n't already accept the existence of God as true . |
| 9 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 10 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 11 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 12 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 13 | " We came to do something about the record-player , " Sandra said brightly . |
| 14 | A teenager concerned about the plight of the homeless has decided to do something about the problem herself . |
| 15 | Secondly is evidence from sediments and materials , and the material comprising the river terrace could be used to infer something about the mode of deposition and the physical environment at the time . |
| 16 | Yes , er maybe I would n't have mentioned it , but er , well , that 's a story of one like dozens of people , congratulating us , that at long last we 're going to do something about the environment and protect it for the future of our children , and they consider it money well spent , and asking the question , why was n't it never done before . |
| 17 | We 've got to do something about the bomb before we start . |
| 18 | Terence would not mention his own name to anybody , he was confident of that , but he must be told to say nothing about the rest of it , to anyone . |
| 19 | He was n't going to say anything about the Worm , but of course he 'd reckoned without his mother . |
| 20 | Again , I am not going to say anything about the length of the order or how it should be arrived at , because of the course I am going to take . |
| 21 | I am not going to say anything about the subserviency of the Government . |
| 22 | They will probably want to do something about the fat and other charnel substances floating in the water , as well . |
| 23 | ‘ But knowing the little person he is , he 'll want to do something about the problem he has because he knows it will help other children , too . |
| 24 | You you do n't have to know anything about the problem to specify them . |
| 25 | Suddenly Malcolm decided to change everything about the shop — name , stock , attitude . |
| 26 | Miss Dunstable decided to say nothing about the Rector 's imperfectly ironed surplice . |
| 27 | I often don't. erm and in some ways coming on a programme like this , or finding other ways to make your views be heard is erm I think very important in a way which me and my colleagues try to do something about the anger that we 're feeling . |
| 28 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 29 | A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child . |
| 30 | WELSH farmer David Richards does n't want to say anything about the shooting of his son Mark on a live fire-training exercise in Belize , Central America , last month . |