Example sentences of "[verb] next to [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 2 | Staff are underpaid and know next to nothing about wine . |
| 3 | I know next to nothing about you also . |
| 4 | But western audiences know next to nothing about the martial arts . |
| 5 | I know next to nothing about wild flowers , and what little I do know I learnt largely when I was a pink-kneed " Boy Sprout " in Manchester and in order to pass some badge or other I had to be able to burn some dough on a stick over an open fire , make smoky porridge and recognise six kinds of trees and flowers from their leaves and blossoms . |
| 6 | I know next to nothing about cars , never having learned to drive one . |
| 7 | ‘ You know next to nothing about me and you do n't know my father at all , yet you have the nerve to say such things ! |
| 8 | Charles had known next to nothing about farming . |
| 9 | The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party . |
| 10 | He knew next to nothing about chemicals and crops , but established Israel 's first aerial crop-spraying service — and , despite his ignorance of cattle , its first beef cattle ranch . |
| 11 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |