Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] about [art] " in BNC.

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1 Possibly because the French Federation may actually know nothing about the game .
2 In the second appeal , the tape clearly did demonstrate something about the gruffness and depth of the accused 's voice which could not have been gleaned from the transcript .
3 But do you know everything about every part of the plant ?
4 You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them .
5 Thus teachers , on one side , can know everything about the technicalities of curriculum , pedagogy , the use of resources and professional standards .
6 Did she know something about the performance he did not ?
7 We should know something about the periodicity of the variables we are monitoring if we are not to risk either unnecessarily detailed data collection or aliasing of trends ;
8 So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library .
9 We suspect that he may know something about the downing of this plane that we do n't know he knows , if you follow me .
10 If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal .
11 HP would know something about the exercise since it 's trying to do the same thing and the best it 's been able to come up with is the diskless 16Mb 715/33 for $5,700 or 525Mb 715/33 for $7,400 .
12 To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised .
13 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 .
14 Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course .
15 She could see behind Rose 's phrase a fear that Steve might indeed know something about the bodies .
16 You 've got to have all that side of it , and if you 're in teaching it 's a bit ridiculous to be in any job if you do n't know something about the history of it .
17 Roland listened politely and said , ‘ Do you know anything about a Miss LaMotte who wrote children 's stories and religious poetry in the 1850s or thereabouts ? ’
18 ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated .
19 You could n't know anything about a person who was possessed .
20 ‘ You do n't know anything about a box , Theo ? ’
21 ‘ No , Gilbert , I do n't know anything about a box of Amy 's .
22 from erm Andy there 's a party and a units party but he does n't know anything about a units party .
23 Yes , it 's a lot of money to pay — I do n't know anything about an appeal . ’
24 Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ?
25 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 ?
26 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 .
27 Oh , you do n't know anything about the plans he had for his dear daughter , and you stand there and talk of her marrying a man from the lowest scum family in Newcastle .
28 ‘ He did n't know anything about the guitar .
29 We do not know anything about the nature of her illness .
30 ‘ I do n't know anything about the Bamford Hunt , ’ Meredith said , suddenly finding him unattractive and pushy , his manner hectoring , and disliking both the way he assumed she would agree with him and the arrogance he displayed in failing to give any reason why she should do as he asked .
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