Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [indef pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 2 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 3 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 5 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
| 6 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 7 | The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome . |
| 8 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 9 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 10 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 11 | In fact , she liked everything about the dismal house with its strange air of disuse . |
| 12 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 13 | Erm Wh have we done anything about the environmental charter ? |
| 14 | From collections of legal formulae we know something about the local archives of a city , in which wills and other actions were registered , and we find various officials , the defensor , curator , magister militum and other members of the local curia being called upon to open the archives for the registration of new grants , but we have Formularies only from a small number of civitates , and their contents are not often datable , except to the period before the ninth century , when most of them were written down . |
| 15 | This necessitates them saying something about the rival philosophy of the includers in addition to conveying the appearance of expertise . |
| 16 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 17 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 18 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 19 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 20 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 21 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 22 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 23 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 24 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 25 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 26 | It did nothing about the immediate problems , and so , probably inevitably , came to be seen as a form of inaction . |
| 27 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |