Example sentences of "[verb] about life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words of the songs , even given the fact that much is lost in translation , are disappointing ; such is the passion and power of the voices that you feel they must be singing about life and death matters . |
| 2 | But what , for instance , does Morrissey know about life , sat in his living room in Halebarns denouncing carnivores everywhere when some poor bugger in Hulme would give his right arm for a pork chop ? |
| 3 | There was n't much the urban pair did n't know about life and death . |
| 4 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 5 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 6 | Everything you never needed to know about life in the trouser department |
| 7 | You felt you had entered new worlds and discovered all that it was necessary to know about life . |
| 8 | To theorize about life is not to live . |
| 9 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 10 | But first she invited us to her retreat in rural Sweden to talk about life , love , family — and home |
| 11 | This Australian woman was admitted to a nursing home by her relatives because of a heart condition , but managed to keep a journal , and organise her life afresh to move out to her own flat , before writing about life on the inside . |
| 12 | So in writing about life it is not difficult to have things happen . |
| 13 | What I 've always said about life itself . |
| 14 | This study provided us with an opportunity to identify some of the myths that predominantly unskilled workers hold about life in their work environment . |
| 15 | Davide 's client snapped finger and thumb together at any ignoble suggestion of peacemaking , at such a dishonourable way of going about life , and insisted on justice . |
| 16 | Typical of artists to read nothing except what they happen upon and then to pontificate about life and art and the way the world is going . |
| 17 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 18 | And Bryan Burnett 's doned his cork hat to hear about life down under from the Aussie band Midnight Oil . |
| 19 | He owed his life to Corbett who had saved him from a choking death at Tyburn , yet Corbett was still mysterious ; working constantly , his only pleasure being the flute , some manuscript or sitting quietly over a cup of wine brooding about life . |
| 20 | ‘ You know about life in an accountant 's office ? ’ she asked with a degree of innocence , while knowing perfectly well that he did . |
| 21 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
| 22 | That one would be thankful of the fact that Christ has spoke and talked about life . |
| 23 | Welfare Assistant and I chatted about life ( i.e. something outside of school ) whilst they busied themselves around us . |
| 24 | Spinster ( Jessica York , UK , 1990 ) women aged 26 to 86 talk about life in this enquiring documentary — part of the Norwich Women 's Film Weekend , Feb 22–24 at Cinema City . |
| 25 | Books about important things by people who really feel about life . |
| 26 | Dickerson and Brown began interviewing kids to find out how they felt about life , pressure and violence , and took the resulting screenplay , ‘ an adult story for kids ’ , he explains , to several studios and a host of big-name producers . |
| 27 | What I felt about life , my immediate family , the Church and the wider issues facing society . |
| 28 | Of what use was reading about life ? |
| 29 | Three questions were asked about life and afterlife in the voluntary sector , and the response produced a strikingly confused portrait . |
| 30 | A summons from the tannoy interrupted our homespun philosophies and Joe sped off to perform a faultless run-through with no sign of the steroid-induced agitation — a true pro — while I sat and thought about life 's ‘ hard knocks ’ . |