Example sentences of "[pron] about [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tell us almost nothing about the labourers employed by the more prosperous peasants . |
| 2 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 3 | This version says nothing about the Israelites making a crossing . |
| 4 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 5 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 6 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 7 | Laming claimed he knew nothing about the drugs ring and said Black put up £10,000 towards development of the stun gun . |
| 8 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 9 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 10 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |
| 11 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 12 | The only message survivors were permitted to send , a postcard with the words ‘ I am safe ’ , puzzled the recipients , who knew nothing about the deportations . |
| 13 | ‘ I know nothing about the tenants . |
| 14 | PRINCESS Diana knows nothing about the lives of ordinary , everyday people and of inner city deprivation and squalor . |
| 15 | I would n't say they were lucky against Oldham , but everything ran for them today , the underside of the crossbar and the post saved Charlton on a couple of occasions and as Simpson said I think ‘ Bolder on a couple of occasions really knew nothing about the saves he 'd made , they were point blank , and he just happened to be there . ’ |
| 16 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 17 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 18 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 19 | There is nothing in Polybius about the Bacchanalia scandal , nothing about the measures against the Latins , for instance in 187 B.C. ( Liv . |
| 20 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 21 | It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations . |
| 22 | ‘ Edouard thinks Maurin knew nothing about the brothers going to the flat until someone told him . ’ |
| 23 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 24 | They tell readers nothing about the arguments in favour of the extension of VAT . |
| 25 | If the concern is income inequality , this sort of approach is not very helpful as it tells you nothing about the numbers that have to ‘ share ’ each proportion of income . |
| 26 | ‘ Not without telling them about the coins . |
| 27 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 28 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 29 | It was a party of sixth-formers with an instructor teaching them about the effects of weathering , the differing levels of hardness of limestone and how the two combine to produce waterfalls . |
| 30 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |