Example sentences of "could [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Hatherby explained in her dry , sibilant voice , that they were sent from Paris so that London ladies could know about the latest French fashions and have them copied . |
| 2 | There was nothing United could do about the second ; a great piece of football skill from Alan McLoughlin . |
| 3 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
| 4 | I replied that if colleagues agreed with him then we could forget about the whole review . |
| 5 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
| 6 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
| 7 | The scientists provided the sound base from which Harold Wilson could talk about the white heat of the technological revolution in 1963 , and be believed , rightly , because it was no gimmick , but sincerely meant , and potentially a huge success . |
| 8 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
| 9 | In St Augustine 's interpretation of Trinitarian doctrine , Hilton also found a way of showing how sinful man could learn about the incomprehensible God and return to his creator . |