Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning . |
| 2 | I 'm not going to go into the dream thing with Cal , or say anything about Vern 's dad . |
| 3 | But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know . |
| 4 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 5 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 6 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 7 | Erm I I I must say I have n't read or heard anything about the British Gas thing . |
| 8 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 9 | No one — absolutely no one — had seen a man called Kennedy arrive , or known anything about a man with that name . |
| 10 | Do n't bother thinking about hitting me or saying anything about me cos I 'm swear when I catch you I 'll kill you . |
| 11 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 12 | Kapuscinski generalises : ‘ the degree of consciousness that drives one to demand justice or do something about obtaining it has n't yet been reached . ’ |
| 13 | But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth . |
| 14 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |
| 15 | The conception does not have to do , above all , with the statement 's having some otherwise specified content or subject-matter : that is , say , as being about thoughts , wants , or intentions , or conveying something about persons , minds , subjectivity , experience , or an inner world . |
| 16 | Personality is an all-embracing term that covers everything about you ; your outward behaviour as well as all the underlying factors , such as beliefs ( see page 21 ) , attitudes ( see page 12 ) and feelings ( see page 66 ) . |
| 17 | so that says something about specialization of production possibly , that countries are now more highly specialized than they once were . |
| 18 | On a song like ‘ What Did Your Last Servant Die Of ? ’ he provides neither food for thought nor reveals anything about himself . |
| 19 | Rather than do anything about it , the Council pay the farmers a subsidy to filter the water . |
| 20 | ‘ The thing that struck one about him was the fantastic charisma and this bright-eyed determination , which he has maintained to this very day , ’ recalled Graham . |
| 21 | There was n't a girl in the village he could n't … but when he thought about it , there was nothing in his statement , so far as he could remember , that said anything about … |
| 22 | So out you go You know people initially work using networks , and then if they do n't have somebody that corresponds to something which they 've got to do then they perhaps will phone the university or the poly and say , ‘ Have you got anyone that knows anything about jam fritters or whatever it is , we want to do a piece because it 's current , ’ and somebody 's unearthed in that particular way . |
| 23 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 24 | So you did n't have a letter there and then and asked something about was it put into writing . |
| 25 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 26 | The conductor would smile , give us a pat on the head , and say something about ‘ nice looking kids ’ . |
| 27 | It follows that , in offering a view of the cultural characteristics of higher education , we must also keep an eye on the wider culture and say something about their interconnections . |
| 28 | Do you have any indication of its source , and say something about the background of people . |
| 29 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 30 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |