Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] about " in BNC.

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1 I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again .
2 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
3 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
4 Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
5 So did his explanatory remark that he had written it ‘ to show that I know something about birds ’ .
6 It is n't the first time you 've implied that I know something about what 's going on , so how about explaining it to me ? ’
7 ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’
8 I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work .
9 She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney .
10 Not that she knew anything about washing .
11 All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily .
12 He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it .
13 What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’
14 Computers are becoming more popular every day and because they are so useful , it is important that you learn something about them .
15 The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers .
16 ‘ The problem is that we know nothing about either the land or the people , ’ Alexei said .
17 The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti .
18 an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education .
19 Once you have chosen your bureau make sure that they know everything about your system and the way that documents will be presented .
20 or they 're so serious about it that they 'll probably be watching everything , you know , just to sort of make sure that they know everything about
21 People write me letters saying that although they only know me from my photos , they feel that they know something about my personality .
22 They did n't get the information they needed , so they knew nothing about things like alternative positions during labour . ’
23 I took notice of him 'cause he knew everything about football as well as boxing .
24 ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men .
25 The first is that it says nothing about W-cells .
26 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
27 " I did n't really notice that he said anything about me , dear . "
28 ‘ But I do n't think , ’ said Robert , with heavy sarcasm , ‘ that he said anything about women having four husbands .
29 The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc .
30 Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs .
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