Example sentences of "[pron] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling 's R.A.F. confidant made arrangements for converting the aircraft but did nothing about telling any of his colleagues planning the operation . |
| 2 | N no nothing about taking lands away from landlords , confiscation |
| 3 | They are taught nothing about helping people to die . |
| 4 | The snag in all this thinking was that most of the people involved knew little or nothing about producing mass-market newspapers . |
| 5 | and you absolutely no knew nothing about producing plain bearings you were sitting in the chair and probably a guy that worked his way through the factory floor who knew the job inside out , he was still |
| 6 | I was only 19 or 20 , and I knew nothing about singing — but I was conscious of two things . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've said nothing about getting married . |
| 8 | It was all very well to remind herself that she and William were individuals who gloried in their independence , and that he had said nothing about getting in touch or when he would be back . |
| 9 | Then he seemed to change the subject as he continued , ‘ You surely do n't think I plan just to sit around and do nothing about getting my speedboat back , not to mention my cousin ? |
| 10 | Did n't think nothing about leaving then ; got ‘ climatized , I suppose . |
| 11 | But her own perspective was different : Durance had told Joseph that Leary was living nearby but Joseph had done nothing about contacting his old friend until he needed an alibi for the night of the murder . |
| 12 | ‘ Anne and Maureen have said nothing about wanting to join anything yet . |
| 13 | ‘ Didn't.say nothing about wanting the rest of him , though . |
| 14 | But days and weeks passed , and Mrs Reed still said nothing about sending me to school . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll have your work cut out to do that — to say nothing about having to contend with Matt 's opposition to the idea . |
| 16 | I said well I think she realized it came to so he 's definitely booked the high court so she 's , she 's done nothing about changing him or anything like that . |
| 17 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 18 | Ben had said nothing about going into town . |
| 19 | The extensive and widely approved report from Lord Justice Woolf said nothing about introducing an offence of prison mutiny . |
| 20 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 21 | Mr Muawad , a pro-Syrian Maronite Christian , met deputies in the village of Ehden in the Syrian-controlled north to consult them about forming a cabinet , due to be announced this week . |
| 22 | In preparing the script , talk to them about writing for speaking . |
| 23 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 24 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 25 | Right people here at half past three , if I have to tell them about fooling about . |
| 26 | It 's quicker for me to clear up/wash up and so on than to argue with them about doing it . |
| 27 | He crouched down behind the service hatch in an instinct not to be seen , and then the alcohol stirred in his veins and he was emboldened to be rebuking , lecturing them about making a noise and then , with extreme lordliness , cooking them a very bad meal at no charge . |
| 28 | ‘ However , current Education Minister John Patten said he regarded Church schools as making a crucial contribution to education but he had n't actually consulted them about opting out . ’ |
| 29 | He did n't say anything to me about renting out his house . |
| 30 | Could you advise me about moving fish to different water conditions ? |