Example sentences of "and [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is that to a class of fifteen-year-olds in a co-ed comprehensive school , such a statement told us something influential about the culture in which we were growing up and nothing about gerbils . |
| 2 | The article said nothing about my answers to these critics , and nothing about the content of my actual talk at Wellesley College . |
| 3 | The other CD had at least a text explaining the context of each piece , but again no libretto and nothing about the opera or its composer . |
| 4 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 5 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 6 | He said nothing at all about his angry chase after her and nothing about her fear . |
| 7 | She had his complete attention now and nothing about him was sceptical . |
| 8 | So why all this information about the club and nothing about judo ? |
| 9 | There are no minutes or other official reports and nothing about their drafting . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been sniffing around and nothing about this city smells kosher . |
| 11 | These cheeses have their own identity , and nothing about one cheese changes the nature of the other cheeses . |
| 12 | The Patois index therefore tells us everything and nothing about an individual speaker : it tells us whether that person uses many or few Patois features overall in their talk , but nothing about how he or she uses Patois and English as part of a communicative strategy . |
| 13 | However , insurrection and revolution , whether by peasants or others , explain little more than the timing of some cases of serf emancipation , and nothing about the abolition of slavery . |
| 14 | ( Ash had also written a poem about Gibbon and one about the Venerable Bede , historians of greatly differing kinds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He told them a story about a gooseberry in a lift and one about holes in Australia . |
| 17 | Your talk would be part of a morning session which would also include a presentation about bus stops and shelters and one about bus stations and termini ; the latter would be followed by a visit to Glenrothes Bus Station . |
| 18 | And something about the tone of Churchill 's letter displeased Ramsey . |
| 19 | And something about his voice made Philip think perhaps it was n't to be a parrot after all . |
| 20 | And something about how she did not speak the French of France because she was from Martinique , and how she was n't rich and she was n't chic . |
| 21 | It 's all very complicated and there 's a lot of stuff about original ‘ round ’ core as opposed to the more modern ‘ hex ’ core , and something about wrap wire being able to move around a round core , and the wrap stretching on tuning and just the core moving through the nut , and the smaller space available for gunk to gather , and a heck of a lot more besides . |
| 22 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew what she looked like , her lifestyle and something about her personality . |
| 24 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
| 25 | Raffaella described her injuries in indignant Italian , ticking each one off on her fingers , but Julia could understand only something about cracked ribs and something about her eyes . |
| 26 | There 's something about , I do n't know whether you 've heard about it , about this education and training for twenty first century , and something about they 're not funding leisure classes the government or something . |
| 27 | There 's so much to do and something about money , that 's about as much as I know . |
| 28 | ‘ But the engine was quiet and seemed to run well , and everything about the owner seemed legit , ’ he says . |
| 29 | They seemed to smell the air and if a lone bird hove in sight , they 'd pick it up when it was no more than a speck and watch it till it disappeared , and everything about it would be important to them — the direction of its flight , the way it flew , its height above the water , and so on . |
| 30 | beat the air , and everything about me moaned |