Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 2 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 3 | Label every area and then use what they give you about the total number . |
| 4 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 5 | Now meditate on these words of Paul , thinking about what they tell you about the grace and love of God in your own situation or that of someone close to you . |
| 6 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |
| 7 | Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) . |
| 8 | This , teachers and educational technologists will always happily agree , is the librarian 's professional job , and what surprises people is not that librarians classify and catalogue but that they sometimes believe they know something about the contents of their books and AV items , offer advice on quality and relevance , and have pronounced views on how they would like their libraries to be used . |
| 9 | They know nothing about the means of organising , nor are they particularly militant , but they see quickly and quite clearly that they are being exploited . |
| 10 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 11 | And they know nothing about the flat , of course . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm sure you can appreciate that people are wary about big-city developers coming in and turning everywhere upside-down because they know nothing about the area . ’ |
| 13 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 14 | They ask me about the research , its aims , methods , etc . |