Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 2 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |
| 3 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 4 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 5 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 6 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 7 | The BD8 Form is sent to the Social Services Department and a social worker will then visit the family to inform them about the services and allowances that may be available to them . |
| 8 | Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ . |
| 9 | The SS will advertise our willingness to inform ourselves about the needs of industry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
| 13 | We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers . |
| 14 | However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's good to know something about the man . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child . |
| 19 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality . |
| 22 | To understand Theory Z , it will be helpful to know something about the characteristics of large Japanese firms . |
| 23 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 24 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 27 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 28 | Other than this we do not need to know anything about the portion of the sentence we have already generated . |
| 29 | You you do n't have to know anything about the problem to specify them . |
| 30 | But then , you 're too conventional to know anything about the sort of relationships that a literary man can have . ’ |