Example sentences of "you [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself . |
| 2 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 3 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | As a consequence , the changes produced will tell you nothing about the normal functions of that part . |
| 5 | I seem to remember , i i i you know , you try to bri you brought something back into me mind through saying that but er I , I ca n't , I could n't tell you nothing about it no no I could n't tell you nothing about it . |
| 6 | I seem to remember , i i i you know , you try to bri you brought something back into me mind through saying that but er I , I ca n't , I could n't tell you nothing about it no no I could n't tell you nothing about it . |
| 7 | Such a statement tells you nothing about the meaning of the word — to discover the meaning you have to transmit code 538 to the semantic system . |
| 8 | If the concern is income inequality , this sort of approach is not very helpful as it tells you nothing about the numbers that have to ‘ share ’ each proportion of income . |
| 9 | Oh I 'm glad you asked me that duck , I could tell you plenty about it . |
| 10 | Songs about relationships , growing older and social issues sat alongside primitive rock'n'roll revelry and country idioms , telling you something about Springsteen 's range as well as about the breadth of concerns which rock could now legitimately address . |
| 11 | Even today , most educated people could probably tell you something about Voltaire and Rousseau ; Candide and the Confessions still appear in popular editions , and are therefore read . |
| 12 | ‘ Just between you and me , ’ said Dame Edna cosily , ‘ I 'll tell you something about that woman . |
| 13 | A wooden bench a short way up strewn with cigarette ends tells you something about those who only make it that far , but then the path is a long , steep ascent for anyone unused to hill-walking . |
| 14 | Let me start by telling you something about him . |
| 15 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 16 | ‘ And Mrs McDougall told you something about him that changed your minds ? ’ |
| 17 | And if a company has n't filed accounts at all when it 's supposed to have done , that should tell you something about the organization of the company . |
| 18 | And he will if you 'd like to come along and speak to him individually afterwards he will tell you something about that . |
| 19 | I could tell you something about the , if you 've got the |
| 20 | Finally , there are simple conventions that need explaining : not all pupils will know that the two words printed at the head of a page tell you something about the alphabetic range of the words on that page . |
| 21 | I think I should tell you something about Sister Beatrice . " |
| 22 | In the pages that follow , I 'll be trying as frankly as possible to tell you something about myself — my childhood in Devon and Cornwall , my days as a newspaper reporter and those as a lance-corporal in the army ( not to mention the occasional hazardous romance in up-market Port Said ! ) and then , since 1961 , my career in television . |
| 23 | To tell you something about the work of other college staff . |
| 24 | So do you think I could ask you something about what you please tell |
| 25 | ‘ He is n't so bad , you know , I could tell you something about him — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to tell you something about Todd that will leave you safe . |
| 27 | ‘ Could I ask you something about Estella ? |
| 28 | Let me tell you something about her . |
| 29 | ‘ To teach you something about trust , ’ he told her softly , pulling her into his arms . |
| 30 | ‘ Let me tell you something about men , Maggie Howard , ’ he grated unevenly . |