Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't believe in God , an' 'e knows all about such fings . ’ |
| 2 | Then call Meany on 051 7092714 and let him know all about it . |
| 3 | She did n't really want to get into a conversation of that sort with David Markham and she certainly did n't want him knowing all about her personal life . |
| 4 | How does he know that about me ? |
| 5 | Does he know all about Ben then does he ? |
| 6 | I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now . |
| 7 | It was all now , to him magnificent — his hour of glory — and he forgot all about Meg ; she appeared as insignificant , her endless prayers , to the rapt attention of the crowd . |
| 8 | Angelina 's voice made him jump and he forgot all about Pretty Polly , and all about his chances of sneaking away from the Canterbury trip tomorrow to see the second day of the Kent versus Australia match . |
| 9 | But he knew little about them . |
| 10 | Not that he knew much about him — English , of course , related to an old friend who used to serve in the Royal Navy and had asked Sanders to accommodate his young kinsman for a week or two as a favour . |
| 11 | the Sword He knew all about it Too |
| 12 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
| 13 | He knew all about gossip and calumny , having tried for months to cope with the shifty Hoornik family . |
| 14 | A former director of Williams Holdings he knew all about vulture purchasing from his days with Nigel Rudd and Brian McGowan . |
| 15 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 16 | Though Wallace had no training in unarmed combat , the impression remained that he knew all about karate . |
| 17 | He knew all about his landlady 's ability to talk the hind-leg off a cockney donkey . |
| 18 | He knew all about the Target Teams of Customs & Excise . |
| 19 | ‘ Rosengarten might not have known much about music , but he knew all about money — he could spend all day haggling over ten schillings . |
| 20 | After a day on the track with Formula One driver Martin Brundle , Neil Lyndon thought he knew all about driving a racing car . |
| 21 | ‘ Also he knew all about the work I was doing . |
| 22 | He knew all about the blackmail . |
| 23 | ‘ He knew all about you and me . |
| 24 | He knew all about it . |
| 25 | He felt this about most accounts and articles in newspapers . |
| 26 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 27 | And we , on going home , he talks all about the work . |
| 28 | Hey ! ’ of 1927 , Eliot judged John Rodker ‘ up-to-the-minute , if anyone is ; we feel sure that he knows all about hormones , W. H. R. Rivers , and the Mongol in our midst ’ . |
| 29 | He knows all about sadness , temptation and the grubby facts of life . |
| 30 | After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life . |