Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] nothing about the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … .
2 I know nothing about the tenants .
3 I know nothing about the Resistance , and have nothing against the forces of the occupation .
4 Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client .
5 I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’
6 I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing .
7 I knew nothing about the event .
8 I knew nothing about the Ober Gabelhornr 's history or the difficulty of the route , or even what it looked like .
9 I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess .
10 I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’
11 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
12 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
13 I tried once or twice to reverse our roles , but he again made it clear that he did not want to talk about himself I said nothing about the glove .
14 You ca n't kno , you know nothing about the Kingdom of God .
15 She knew nothing about the particular thing .
16 And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door .
17 When she had handed Tim his wallet , she said nothing about the pedlar .
18 All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily .
19 We know nothing about the gearing devices involved , but the associated mathematical calculations may have been contained in a lost treatise of Archimedes On sphere making , that is on modelling the heavens .
20 Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant .
21 Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 .
22 And of course , to start with , we knew nothing about the boat 's history , That , if you will allow the word , is also , for the moment , irrelevant . ’
23 Thus the following scheme is both useful and relatively simple : As against ( b ) we learn nothing about the ( possibly interesting ) history , etc. , effects but the scheme is reasonably practicable .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme .
27 And they know nothing about the flat , of course . ’
28 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 . ’
29 They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out .
30 Tell her to say nothing about the child .
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