Example sentences of "but [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitaker ( 1979 : 229 ) records how these ‘ college men ’ are described sardonically at police station level , as ‘ plastic men — who know all about how to hold a knife and fork , but nothing about how to catch villains ’ . |
| 2 | The first draft has ‘ he thought to himself ’ but nothing about the sister . |
| 3 | It is a system insidious but extremely powerful , where pupils may end up learning quite a lot about the way of life in ancient Rome and Greece but nothing about the way of life of their fellow pupils who are black . |
| 4 | I knew something about Catalonia but nothing about Andorra , except that it was a tiny independent principality , one of the world 's smallest countries , set high in the eastern Pyrenees . |
| 5 | When he appears again in The Stormy Petrel , part of his duty is to encourage the prospective King Carol , a timid boy under Count Jasper 's Regency — a boy who , as Dick complains , knows ‘ a lot out of books ’ but nothing about ‘ real things ’ , which he defines as : |
| 6 | You spent some time describing how the linesiders were disappointed but nothing about the sterling work done by the loco department at Loughborough to put matters right and ensure a full days running on the Sunday . |
| 7 | I knew nothing , but nothing about it . ’ |
| 8 | He knows all about the figures but nothing about the reality behind them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 11 | Juliet had told her a little about her own adoption , and her search for Elaine , but nothing about her talk to Celia and her great-aunt . |
| 12 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 13 | I heard nothing from students about a baby with alleged dog 's ears but plenty about biochemical investigations and possible treatments of Down 's syndrome from Professor Jerome Lejeune . |
| 14 | There was wide disagreement about where and how to start dismantling the command economy , but none about the direction for progress . |
| 15 | But something about Mr Gummer 's face — like the look of insufferable smugness - should have warned Dr Clark that it was all about to go horribly wrong for him . |
| 16 | She opened her mouth to argue further , being plainly in the mood to announce she was leaving her job rather than allow any arrangement to succeed , but something about McLeish 's expression checked her and she agreed meekly . |
| 17 | ‘ But something about that evidence bothers you . ’ |
| 18 | Her dress was in the high-waisted Empire style worn by almost all young women nowadays , but something about it seemed to Karelius , far from expert though he was , vaguely wrong . |
| 19 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 20 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 21 | He was not a tall man , but something about his confidence and reputation gave him an impressive stature . |
| 22 | Christians have always proclaimed not simply Jesus ' teaching , but something about Jesus . |
| 23 | The style of Mrs Praga 's book , Dainty Dinner Tables and How to Decorate Them ( published in 1907 ) , may be archaic , but something about the tone and even the context is curiously familiar . |
| 24 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 25 | But something about him makes me feel that this time he will do what he has said . |
| 26 | But something about the sheet of paper , lying with its contents reflected unreadably in the mirror , drew him towards it . |
| 27 | She could n't fathom the difference , but something about his mood made her feel uneasy . |
| 28 | But something about his tense immobility , something ominous in the atmosphere , deterred her . |
| 29 | An entity is not data itself , but something about which data should be kept . |
| 30 | But something about his smile made her hesitate , then someone in the pool called out , ‘ Hello , Rachel . ’ |