Example sentences of "[pron] about it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing inherently blippy or noisy about that bit pattern Nothing about it tells you that it will have that effect on the loudspeaker . |
| 2 | Tom thought this a ridiculous reason for doing something ( or not doing something ) , because a person who knew nothing about it asked you . |
| 3 | The fact that he could do nothing about it made Burun 's enjoyment of the situation all the sweeter . |
| 4 | The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread . |
| 5 | Nothing about it disconcerted him ; its messiness , its smell , the most bizarre of its trappings . |
| 6 | If we needed to talk to your scheme and if we would , it would be fairly serious incident for us to come to you , to tell you about it ask Phil for some help with it . |
| 7 | You see , all the things which at the moment seem strange to you about it become every day normality after a bit , so that it 's untrue to give you an answer in terms of the lack of space or the lack of change or the lack of food or any of the other things which make this so different from ordinary life . ’ |
| 8 | Tal talking about pensions Tom , the chap er cha with the office girls and that and , and checking our expense sheets , he , he er they put a notice on the board you could ante your what , in your pension , you could a put a bit more into it and I were looking at notice and he says ooh he says it 's no good for you , he says er w well I told you about it did n't I ? |
| 9 | got this program upstairs , I did n't tell you about it did I ? |
| 10 | A new era of greater awareness and understanding of the problems of the disabled accompanied by a willingness to do something about it had begun . |
| 11 | ‘ I must say I was not aware of all the problems the police have detailed and would have done something about it had they told me . ’ |
| 12 | You said something about it had a no you have n't shown me but you did tell me about it . |
| 13 | It depends really does , cos Joe said something about it depends if her boyfriend 's got any money to come up or something or |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This was a perpetual source of vexation to Mahmoud and his efforts to do something about it drove him towards reform at the political level — he was a member of the Nationalist Party — and perfectionism in his daily work . |
| 16 | Something about the words that I use , and the way that I deliver them , something about it strikes a low chord in his guts . |
| 17 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 18 | ‘ Something about it spoke to us . ’ |
| 19 | Strangely enough , something about it makes me feel rather unsafe ! ’ |
| 20 | It has been starved of funds , and leading politicians with the power to do something about it have done little or nothing , apparently content as long as the radio reported what they wanted it to report . |
| 21 | Well , in that case I 'm gon na do something about it love that Cos I ai n't having no dog there yapping all , a , while I 'm out there ! |
| 22 | ‘ Something about it going through the filtration of memory , I reckon . ’ |
| 23 | Something about it disturbed him — not the obvious facts of its shock and tragedy — but some discordant element , something that did n't ring true . |
| 24 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 25 | Everything about it spells cost . |
| 26 | Everything about it has helped me to grapple with the intricacies of machine knitting in this , my second year . |
| 27 | Everything about it worked . |
| 28 | But with her husband constantly coming and going between this house and the other and looking so damned pleased with himself , pretending not to understand when John-William had tackled him about it looking odd , then what — without causing a mighty rumpus — could he do ? |
| 29 | Eventually I untangled them and muttered something to him about it having been a hair-raising experience … |
| 30 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |