Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | If a male customer my age is addressed as sir while I am love , that surely says something about the relative respect in which we are held . |
| 5 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 6 | Second , hanging on a peg is a black robe with a monogrammed ‘ D ’ which , if put on by anyone other than Drachenfels himself , wraps itself about the unfortunate wearer and attacks with tiny mouths in its lining ; it gets 2D6 Attacks at S 2 each round . |
| 7 | I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense ! |
| 8 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
| 9 | Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city . |
| 10 | The carpenter tells me about the Khaki scouts . |
| 11 | So it , it , it 's a , it goes much beyond merely a kind of er , cliche , of saying , all people can be sometimes good or people can be sometimes bad , and it tells you about the specific way in which this th this comes about . |
| 12 | It 's important to remember the classification tells you about the minimum facilities available : it could well be that a Listed establishment , for example , will also provide some of the services and facilities found at a higher Crown level . |
| 13 | your partner tells you about the good times he/she had before meeting you |
| 14 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 15 | The " particularities " of scholarly comparison can also embarrass the lay reader of The Scale where Hilton , particularly in Scale 2 , illuminates something about the inner relevance of what is meant by " Christ lived in each person according to the construction of that personality " . |
| 16 | The almost mystical power of race and nation on the political stage conveys something about the changing nature of class relations , the growth of state authoritarianism , the eclipse of industrial production , the need to maintain popular support for militarism and exterminism and the end of the nation-state as a political form . |
| 17 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |