Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 3 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 4 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 5 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 6 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 7 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 8 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 9 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 10 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 11 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 12 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 13 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |
| 14 | He was so efficient , I 'm wondering if he could do something about the disgusting chick pea casserole they serve on the Intercity 125 . |
| 15 | If the Minister is genuinely concerned about maritime safety , he must do something about the massive proposed cuts in the coastguard service . |
| 16 | A Reagan administration in Sacramento , the voters were led to believe , would do something about the rising tide of crime in the state , would take people off welfare and put them to work and , above all else , it would get the government off the people 's back . |
| 17 | Community leaders have little expectation that the new government will do anything about the inner-city areas where most blacks and Asians live . |
| 18 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 20 | He does , indeed , say something about the latter . |
| 21 | With that warning let me briefly say something about the general topic . |
| 22 | But we must first say something about the earlier arguments . |
| 23 | Before I refer to the particular provisions dealing with administrative receivers , I should also say something about the statutory background to the provisions and the evident purpose of the innovation of the concept of an administrative receiver . |
| 24 | I think you may learn something about the human spirit . |
| 25 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 26 | In their conclusions the researchers did warn , however , that the samples they studied were small and that they could not say anything about the long-term effects of increased exposure to ultraviolet radiation . |