Example sentences of "be [verb] [indef pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 2 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 3 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 4 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 5 | The other thing I was slightly concerned about it , if it 's a slight digression is the fact that the people at the Lyceum at the Assembly Hall last Saturday did n't know , had n't been told anything about the equipment |
| 6 | We are told nothing about the heir he instituted . |
| 7 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
| 8 | She seemed to be deciding something about the knitting in her lap . |
| 9 | They 're not gon na be saying anything about the dangers of bullying in the recruiting office . |
| 10 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 11 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 12 | What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do . |
| 13 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 14 | One 42-year-old market trader who did not want to be named , said : ‘ It is good to know that there is someone who is doing something about the problem . ’ |
| 15 | I i it 's saying something about the motivation of the people who who are doing this , those peasants who were taking the lead and becoming members of the Party . |
| 16 | He was saying something about the Hamilton house , a question . |
| 17 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 18 | " Now , I was saying something about the fish-shop on Lyons Dock . |
| 19 | Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went |
| 20 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |