Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did the Admiral talk to you at all about your conduct of the wine committee ? ’ |
| 2 | But Charles knew very little and nothing at all about management , business and finance . |
| 3 | Since you ask , nothing at all about population . |
| 4 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 5 | Lord Tedder , vice-chairman in the early fifties , admitted that ‘ I know nothing at all about broadcasting , but I can learn . |
| 6 | In response to his prompting remark that ‘ the Jewish problem still has n't been cleared up ’ and ‘ we hear nothing at all about what sort of solution is imagined ’ , only three Party members ( 5 per cent ) expressed open approval of the right to exterminate the Jews , with comments such as : ‘ The Führer has decided upon the extermination of Jewry and promised it . |
| 7 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 8 | ‘ You have no idea , ’ said Healey , ‘ what it was like before you came into the committee , The prime minister was always demanding active intervention early on , with this crazy desire to go there and take things over , that we should side with the Roman Catholics and the Civil Rights movement against the government and the Royal Ulster Constabulary , though we know nothing at all about it . ’ |
| 9 | We know nothing at all about the author of The Cloud of Unknowing . |
| 10 | Of course this figure tells one nothing at all about why the material has the strength which it has and whether it ought to be stronger . |
| 11 | Ruskin ( who will be discussed in a later chapter ) also wrote his autobiography in old age , and without our knowledge of his life from other sources we should have a distorted picture of his childhood , and should know nothing at all about his marriage . |
| 12 | I know nothing at all about television " . |
| 13 | I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them . |
| 14 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 15 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 16 | But this aroused influential opposition notably from the Emperor , Ferdinand I , and the Bavarian Duke , Albrecht V. The Pope 's motu proprio of 2 August 1564 , which nominated eight cardinals to see to the carrying out of the Tridentine reforms generally , says nothing at all about music . |
| 17 | Considering that the New Critics seem to have known nothing at all about the work of the Formalists and their successors ( it is not mentioned at all , for instance , in Wimsatt and Brooks 's Literary Criticism : A Short History of 1957 ) , these affinities are really very striking . |
| 18 | On the face of it , it seemed that she was gaining Ana 's confidence , but then Felipe already had her confidence and he knew nothing at all about her blindness . |
| 19 | He said nothing at all about his angry chase after her and nothing about her fear . |
| 20 | Knowing nothing at all about the actions of other consumers and producers , each consumer will automatically ensure that the last film he or she purchases yields twice as much utility as the last meal purchased . |
| 21 | Therefore it is nonsense for the Opposition to claim that we have done nothing at all about the problems of retraining . |
| 22 | I then looked at the section of the report headed ’ Economic Impact ’ where there was nothing at all about the damage to the coal industry . |
| 23 | No I think they know nothing at all about business . |
| 24 | Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton replied : ‘ My instructions are to let it run its course as if I know nothing at all about it . |
| 25 | Nothing at all about Rocky … except he s in the 17 man squad ( which we already knew ) . |
| 26 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 27 | We , we 've got the how you can help section here , but we 've got nothing at all about what the charity does and how it does it , yes we need some appropriate words for getting the idea that they 're helping children . |
| 28 | Leeson , by nature taciturn , had told her very little about the original photograph and nothing at all about the research he and the Bristol archivist had done on it . |
| 29 | things like this , but regards to the fact that when , when something is sold to somebody right , erm , and then a , and , and the person who 's selling it receives the money , I mean the person the police ca n't do nothing at all about it unless fraud comes into it |
| 30 | In a damaging exposure of Saint Beuve 's literary critical method , Proust argued against Saint Beuve that the biography of a writer , erm even an account of his habits , his social attitudes , his vices , his virtues and so on , that this may tell us nothing at all about the nature and significance of his imaginative work . |