Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paging from Vodapage gives busy people like you the freedom to go about your business and get the message . |
| 2 | It was a superb opportunity to enthuse about RTI 's products . |
| 3 | SCIENTISTS from Canada and the United States have given up attempts to agree about what effect acid rain is having on the environment of North America . |
| 4 | Only the sightscreen manufacturers will do badly out of this idea , and I have no room in my heart to worry about them . |
| 5 | State definitions of needs do n't include the opportunity to know about God . |
| 6 | They are too busy making money to worry about paying bills . |
| 7 | And that 's what I would have thought was proper for the board to know about . |
| 8 | It is the first time a former officer has been given permission to write about MI5 since Sir Percy Sillitoe , the post-war head of the service , published his memoirs in 1955 . |
| 9 | I know enough about fucking AIDS and shit to worry about it . |
| 10 | A person who is tested at a STD clinic may also expressly say that they do not wish their GP to know about it , which may be important later if the GP is ever asked to write a medical report about that person . |
| 11 | That he takes his job seriously is borne out by his willingness to worry about the Higgs boson . |
| 12 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 13 | In particular , note that Mobs already fighting in hand-to-hand combat are not affected by Animosity — they are too busy bashing the enemy to worry about bashing each other . |
| 14 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 15 | She stopped , aware that it would n't be advisable for Richard to know about Harry 's visits . |
| 16 | I wish I could have 2,000 words to write about THE SIZE OF HER HANDS . |
| 17 | Find it , and you may have a crime to write about that will let you bring to vivid life the social customs and curiosities of a day before yesterday . |
| 18 | The attempt to talk about ‘ the family in industrial society ’ implies some contrast with the family in ‘ pre-industrial society ’ , thereby apparently lumping together feudal Europe , the major empires and kingdoms of the Middle and Far East and the Americas , and the many forms of tribal , hunting , nomadic and peasant societies that have been found throughout different parts of the globe . |
| 19 | In his speech Shevardnadze declared his readiness to talk about " a final legal settlement " ( as advocated by the Western allies ) rather than a peace treaty to mark the end of the Second World War . |
| 20 | There were occasions when we would get hysterical with delight at uncovering yet another layer of our much maligned identity , and find the words to talk about it . |
| 21 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |
| 22 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 23 | It 's bad manners to talk about the Holocaust . ’ |
| 24 | It took a particular mood for Ken to talk about his sexual problems . |
| 25 | I think it is something that we should encourage churches to talk about , the districts to talk about speaking of the district secretary I ! |
| 26 | Explains Nick : ‘ Dad said he 'd be there and then got a call from Brussels to talk about herring quotas or something . |
| 27 | ‘ Dad had said he 'd be there and then got a call from Brussels to talk about herring quotas or something , ’ says Nick . |
| 28 | The terms were used in some LEAs to identify children on Statements of Special Educational Needs , and they were adopted by some authors to talk about the curriculum ( Gulliford 1985 ) . |
| 29 | At first , one social worker organising such a group invited speakers to talk about different aspects of caring and disability . |
| 30 | This time , Gina 's ‘ small , greasy artist friend ’ annoyed Nigel to the point that he had to take Eleanor into his study to talk about them . |