Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ; |
| 3 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We must do something about the cuts . |
| 7 | If the Minister is genuinely concerned about maritime safety , he must do something about the massive proposed cuts in the coastguard service . |
| 8 | they must do something about the park court this summer , get the perspex sheeting renew renewed |
| 9 | I must tell you about the pet shop . ’ |
| 10 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |
| 11 | There was the profile of the murderer and the profile of the victim and the one should tell you about the other . |
| 12 | Before I do so I must say something about the way in which the U K economy has developed since the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | This is not a book about theoretical astronomy , but I must say something about the way in which a star radiates , because it is very much part of the overall story . |
| 14 | If you look at erm the the turnover of shops down that road , then that must say something about the amount of money in the area . |
| 15 | Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years . |
| 16 | She may feel more in control if she takes her bill herself to the Department of Social Security , having been guided by the adviser that she should ask them about the ‘ fuel direct ’ scheme that will debit her benefits automatically and prevent disconnection . |
| 17 | He 's a Jack Russell so I 'm hoping he might do something about the rodent problem at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 18 | I think you might find a situation quite clearly where you would find a child behaving in such a way in the classroom that it was being disruptive to himself , disruptive to teachers , disruptive to , to his classmates , and therefore the , the first move must be in a direction of rearranging that behaviour so that there could develop a situation in which you might do something about the learning difficulty . |
| 19 | She said , we 'll ring you about any discrepancies on Monday did n't actually say we 'll ring you about the discrepancies on Monday . |
| 20 | D' you reckon we 'll hear anything about the visas at In Salah , Geoff ? ’ |
| 21 | Now , she thought dully , he 'll tell me about the woman he 's crazy for . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 23 | I 'll tell you about the Mary Chain tomorrow . |
| 24 | Erm I 'll tell you about the er while I 'm doing some . |
| 25 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 26 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 27 | Three years later the same person said : ’ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 28 | I 'll tell you about the wedding |
| 29 | And erm if you wanted to hear about Chelmsford Cathedral when Estelle who was a humorous and eighty something but still on the ball she 'll tell you about the |
| 30 | It might say something about the Americans that they remain so obsessed with this repellent , perverted killer and his pathetic entourage . |