Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself . |
2 | Such a statement tells you nothing about the meaning of the word — to discover the meaning you have to transmit code 538 to the semantic system . |
3 | To tell you something about the work of other college staff . |
4 | So I I hope I 've told you something about the history of the house . |
5 | It told you something about the standard of the England game when coverage of the Wales game continued until the end , even though we scored 3 more in that time . |
6 | There 's one other factor , at the bottom of that , er page , will tell you something about the allocation to units . |
7 | And if a company has n't filed accounts at all when it 's supposed to have done , that should tell you something about the organization of the company . |
8 | They told you everything about the company , what their plans were , how much they earned and so you felt part of the team . |
9 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
10 | ‘ IF anyone thinks the bald figures tell you anything about the quality or hard work of the consultant , then they are living in cloud cuckoo land ’ — Karl Fortes Mayer , 51 , a general surgeon at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands , commenting on publication of his patient waiting times . |
11 | ‘ But you must show me the books , tell me everything about the business . ’ |
12 | Erm can you tell me something about the temple in that area in Caldmore , its role in the community , briefly perhaps . |
13 | Can you tell me something about the crowd itself , erm did particular age groups tend to stand together around the ground or were the young |
14 | look your sisters trying to tell me something about the television , well the televisions not switched on though |
15 | Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding . |
16 | or something what about the amount of care they would get from a farrier , those horses ? |
17 | ‘ Was n't there something about a princess locked up by her cruel father ? ’ she hazarded . |
18 | Or was there something about the nature of French rule that made revolution inevitable ? |
19 | Is there anything about the preparation of this operation that caused you to dissatisfaction ? |
20 | Was there anything about the way that you carried out the operation in the flat that caused you dissatisfaction ? |
21 | Through Special Branch it arranged for Inspector Lamport , of the Portsmouth CID , to visit the Sallyport Hotel two days later , on 21 April , where , in front of the astonished manager , Edward Richman , Lamport tore out from the hotel register the pages bearing the signatures of Crabb and ‘ Smith ’ , and threatened Richman with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if he told anybody anything about the affair . |
22 | but erm he described a , my mum told her everything about a fall the bump on her head , he knew |
23 | He had lived with miracles and wonderments all his life , ever since his uncle had told him something about the family 's history and the eternal presence of Seth in their lives . |
24 | he said , you know fifteen pounds a week , and I said to him what about the petrol ? |
25 | Is it something about the case ? ’ |
26 | I remember nothing whatever about the match , as I passed out thirty yards from the ground . |
27 | What what about the Quarry one ? |
28 | Now er just er coming back to er your Lane School , erm what what about the school dinners , y ? |
29 | But what what about the Playpen as well ? |
30 | So , in the end , I never used to tell them anything about the athletics . |