Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 2 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 3 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 4 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 5 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 8 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 9 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 10 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 11 | He was so efficient , I 'm wondering if he could do something about the disgusting chick pea casserole they serve on the Intercity 125 . |
| 12 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 13 | Community leaders have little expectation that the new government will do anything about the inner-city areas where most blacks and Asians live . |
| 14 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 16 | Did we think we about the old staff did you say ? |
| 17 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 18 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 19 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 20 | " Sit beside me on my carpet , then , and I will tell you about the golden apple and the nine peahens . " |
| 21 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |
| 22 | I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man . |
| 23 | Any computer shop will tell you about the various comms packages available for your machine , though bear in mind that some can be quite difficult to set up ( and that most American software can not handle the Prestel standards ) . |
| 24 | Let let me tell you about the damned side effects of this drug , because people are entitled to know what they . |
| 25 | Did Charles tell you about the proposed merger ? ’ |
| 26 | This is all I can tell you about the rapid modification process ; it has the effect of diminishing the prominence of events and combinations of events that normally occur together , giving prominence to new associations . |
| 27 | The TIC can tell you about the local brewers Tetleys ' Heritage Inns , including the 1,000-year-old Bingley Arms at Bardsey . |
| 28 | He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election . |
| 29 | With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers . |
| 30 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |