Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 2 | I wrote : ‘ These are the questions that really bug me about you . |
| 3 | The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken . |
| 4 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | RACAL is the company which proves beyond a shadow of doubt that share prices say nothing about what a company is worth . |
| 7 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 8 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 9 | When I am gone say nothing about Dr Carey — speak about Dr Carey 's Saviour . ’ |
| 10 | A fuller account of Dr Carey 's life and work can be found in ‘ Say Nothing About Doctor Carey ’ by Lesley Rowe . |
| 11 | The Europe Agreements , however , say nothing about free trade in agriculture . |
| 12 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Say nothing about these papers , Poole , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Till receipts say nothing about a business ’ overheads . |
| 15 | The brief accounts in the narrative sources say nothing about Charles . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , look it up and minute me about it , will you ? |
| 17 | Say one about interrupting , one about topics , and one about perhaps interaction with children , one about er what Or you could even I mean if I did er I did a list of that you could even do the same one , you would n't have to do one each . |
| 18 | Now , although the polls have only just closed , I think that , on the basis of a sample of the replies to our invitations , we can make a projection about the number of people coming to this party and also say something about the ‘ social mix ’ . |
| 19 | The conductor would smile , give us a pat on the head , and say something about ‘ nice looking kids ’ . |
| 20 | Say something about Jesus sometime ! |
| 21 | ‘ I usually say something about going for boldness and colour , but that is really a question of choosing artists by their style . ’ |
| 22 | They say something about the faith necessary for Christian belief in Jesus . |
| 23 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 24 | In making such a statement , evidently , one is not addressing oneself in thought to any specific individual or group of individuals ; although , as will be shown later ( see Chapter 13 ) , one does by implication say something about the class of man-like things , viz. that every single one of its members , no matter how many of them there are , is as a matter of fact man-like . |
| 25 | It follows that , in offering a view of the cultural characteristics of higher education , we must also keep an eye on the wider culture and say something about their interconnections . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just that a few days ago I heard one of our members say something about Connie . |
| 27 | ‘ I mean , did n't the last husband say something about ‘ Lose the fat or lose me ’ ? |
| 28 | Say something about the death , about Hilary 's death . |
| 29 | ‘ I heard that chap Simmons say something about you getting into Hugh 's rooms , ’ he explained . |
| 30 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |