Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 2 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 3 | They did n't get the information they needed , so they knew nothing about things like alternative positions during labour . ’ |
| 4 | I took notice of him 'cause he knew everything about football as well as boxing . |
| 5 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 6 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 7 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 8 | as if I knew nothing about art . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 10 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 11 | And if Heather thought there was something sinister about her relationship with Jack Cornelius — assuming there was a relationship — why did she never ask me if I knew anything about it ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I hear anything about Pascoe I 'll pass it on . ’ |
| 13 | And not on me clothes either , not if I know anything about it . |
| 14 | If I know anything about it , I 'll be well and truly mobile by then . ’ |
| 15 | The rain wo n't be long now , if I know anything about it . " |
| 16 | Otherwise my little Liessa would be ruling the whole world by now , if I know anything about it . |
| 17 | I 've smiled at him , I 've dutifully tried to look as if I like everything about him . |
| 18 | And if I tell anyone about this man , he 'll die . ’ |
| 19 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 20 | ‘ Not if I knows aught about it , she ai n't ! ’ |
| 21 | If you are tempted in the direction of a fish you know nothing about , resist the impulse to buy it , until you know something about its requirements . |
| 22 | She would get hold of Mrs Hnatiuk after church and see if she knew anything about it . |
| 23 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 24 | It was a test , really , to see if she said anything about the stockings . |
| 25 | When the passengers are cleaned up see if you can get this young lady , Irene Charial , alone and find out if she knows anything about the layout of the engine-room . |
| 26 | Well if you write something about me you write something about me ! |
| 27 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
| 28 | If you do n't , or if you tell anyone about me , I 'll cut your heart out . ’ |
| 29 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 30 | If you know anything about it at all , now that — If you can tell us anything it might save a young girl 's life . ’ |