Example sentences of "[pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah know nothin' about sails , nor does Nils — he 's a wizard of an engineer , that 's all . |
| 2 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 3 | Privilege elides into Freedom , libertas into libertates again ; the practical sense depended on who was talking to whom about what , and in which circumstances . |
| 4 | Dad and Eva would come back late , and I 'd get up to see them and hear , as they undressed , who 'd said what to whom about the latest play , or novel , or sex-scandal . |
| 5 | In 1957 there were just 140 lifers in prison ; thirty years later , in 1987 the number had grown to over 2,200 , of whom about one in five had received their life sentence for an offence other than murder . |
| 6 | The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years . |
| 7 | There was no-one about … |
| 8 | There is almost nothing about the artist 's contemporaries . |
| 9 | Steinberg knew nothing about it . |
| 10 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
| 11 | I explained about the green box , but said nothing about this notebook . |
| 12 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 13 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 14 | Expectations of confidentiality and silence prevent many accounts from reaching fruition , for as the revelations of Spycatcher ( Wright and Greenglass 1986 ) revealed , it is not necessarily what is written which causes the pain ; rather it is the breach of the convention which requires members in various arms of the executive to say nothing about their practices . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Usually her passion was an explosion of ecstasy , at a face , a voice , a mannerism ; usually she did nothing about it beyond engineering to spend time in The Presence . |
| 17 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 18 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 19 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 20 | But she could do nothing about it . |
| 21 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 22 | All of these observations of correlations between ERPs and different kinds of behaviour , including phenomenological reports , may tell us something about mental representations and the cognitive processes generating them , but they can tell us nothing about whether these representations and processes are conscious or unconscious . |
| 23 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 24 | We said nothing about them |
| 25 | The first draft has ‘ he thought to himself ’ but nothing about the sister . |
| 26 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 27 | How can all that knowledge be condensed into a fifty-minute lecture to students who know almost nothing about it ? |
| 28 | The government in Addis Ababa will say nothing about the situation , and the war is not reported by the state-run media . |
| 29 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 30 | I know nothing about Mukden except that it and Blackpool are equally unlucky in their names . |