Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [indef pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 2 | We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers . |
| 3 | I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox . |
| 4 | ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’ |
| 5 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 6 | In a search system like Okapi , which ranks records by weighting terms , the system also does not need to know anything about the nature of the relationship . |
| 7 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
| 8 | He will , however , be expected to do something about the severe imbalances that are masked by the wonderful overall figures for economic growth . |
| 9 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 10 | The ‘ no meaning ’ theist denies that the theist needs to say anything about the existence of God that is intelligible to those who do n't already accept the existence of God as true . |
| 11 | However before examining it I want to say something about the general response of community educators to the problems facing the working-class in N. Ireland . |
| 12 | Second I want to say a few words about the efforts that have been made in the last twelve months to increase the G M B's role in the building and civil engineering industries and third I want to say something about the present serious situation in the building industry pay talks . |
| 13 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 14 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 15 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 16 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 17 | " We came to do something about the record-player , " Sandra said brightly . |
| 18 | A teenager concerned about the plight of the homeless has decided to do something about the problem herself . |
| 19 | Secondly is evidence from sediments and materials , and the material comprising the river terrace could be used to infer something about the mode of deposition and the physical environment at the time . |
| 20 | Yes , er maybe I would n't have mentioned it , but er , well , that 's a story of one like dozens of people , congratulating us , that at long last we 're going to do something about the environment and protect it for the future of our children , and they consider it money well spent , and asking the question , why was n't it never done before . |
| 21 | We 've got to do something about the bomb before we start . |
| 22 | You 're not going to learn anything about the police while you 're here . |
| 23 | Terence would not mention his own name to anybody , he was confident of that , but he must be told to say nothing about the rest of it , to anyone . |
| 24 | He was n't going to say anything about the Worm , but of course he 'd reckoned without his mother . |
| 25 | I am not going to say anything about the subserviency of the Government . |
| 26 | Again , I am not going to say anything about the length of the order or how it should be arrived at , because of the course I am going to take . |
| 27 | And I believe that with the privileges that come to those who benefit most from the capitalist system there are obligations , and so the combination of that latter thought makes me want to do something about the inner cities , plus a revulsion at waste and hopelessness and dereliction and concern which is self-evident in some of these older towns and cities . |
| 28 | They will probably want to do something about the fat and other charnel substances floating in the water , as well . |
| 29 | ‘ But knowing the little person he is , he 'll want to do something about the problem he has because he knows it will help other children , too . |
| 30 | In another presidential address , this time to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues , Stotland ( 1977 ) spoke on the topic of ‘ white-collar criminals ’ and argued that although we were beginning to know something about the people who commit white-collar and corporate crime , we ought to intensify our efforts . |