Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no-one says anything about what to do , or whether to do anything at all , when you simply do n't miss it . ’ |
| 2 | But I remember something about Don Airey ( Colosseum , Bernie Marsden , Cozy Powell etc. ) playing keyboards in a band of that very name just a couple of years back . |
| 3 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 4 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 5 | I know how to build those damned weapons but I know nothing about those fancy triggering devices . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think I may have some , who are very poor , but I know nothing about them , ’ I answered . |
| 7 | He went into hospital to have his piles sorted out , but nobody knew anything about it until the treatment was over — and then there were more Williams ‘ bum ’ stories . |
| 8 | ‘ But you dislike everything about me , ’ she breathed . |
| 9 | ‘ You may think you do , but you know nothing about me ! ’ |
| 10 | Her eyes were bright and her face pink , but she said nothing about their encounter with Matthew and Sara felt it would be prying to ask questions . |
| 11 | Of course she was aware , cognitively , that there was a life outside universities , but she knew nothing about it , nor did Charles , or her parents . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's old , and dirty , and ugly ! ’ they cried , shocked , ‘ but she knows everything about us , everything ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I read the appeal in the newspapers for Madame V to come forward , but they said nothing about abduction or ransom . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cranston and Athelstan squatted down before the coffer and began to go through Sir Ralph 's personal papers , but they found nothing about his years in Outremer . |
| 17 | The Riders , one may say , have a sense of awe or of the supernatural ; but they do nothing about it . |
| 18 | More " concrete " , yes ; but he said nothing about " more specific , more precise " . |
| 19 | Back at the house , she waited , tense , to see whether he would take his things up to another room , but he said nothing about it , only slid into his bag with a sigh that assuaged her ; it was the sigh of a child finding a safe place . |
| 20 | But he knew nothing about Gregory VII 's comprehensive decree of 1078 against lay investiture . |
| 21 | But he muttered something about proportions and how the odds were stacked . |
| 22 | Usually the negative feedback begins with ‘ but ’ : e.g. ‘ We were very lucky to get Harry fro the opposition because he 's the top marketing person in the country — but he knows nothing about our products and still has a lot to learn ’ . |
| 23 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 24 | But what strikes one about their situation and the way they are tackling it is how vary narrowly they are ahead . |