Example sentences of "and [pron] 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 | She was unusually secretive about the whole thing and had intricate conversations with God-knows-who on the phone , and certainly would n't speak to Dad and me about what she was doing . |
| 15 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 16 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
| 17 | we have been most upset Gordon and I about |
| 18 | And Shirley happened to come the next day and I about it . |
| 19 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 20 | Yes I just wondered if I could ask Mr er if it was item nine page seven yes , its item nine erm row five and its about a report being brought to the committee on trans proportion policies relating to public transport by extending free transport to school children and students beyond the statuary obligations of the council . |
| 21 | ( Ash had also written a poem about Gibbon and one about the Venerable Bede , historians of greatly differing kinds . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He told them a story about a gooseberry in a lift and one about holes in Australia . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And something about the tone of Churchill 's letter displeased Ramsey . |
| 26 | And something about his voice made Philip think perhaps it was n't to be a parrot after all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew what she looked like , her lifestyle and something about her personality . |