Example sentences of "[verb] about [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
| 2 | General theories are formulated about supposedly universal topics , for instance , about attribution of emotions , or friendship formation or schematic information-processing , etc . |
| 3 | Unless there is drastic action based on the Woolf report , rather than the sort of band-aid solution that we have heard about today , I fear that there will be an increase in disturbances , especially if there is yet another unexpected surge in the prison population . |
| 4 | Among the ten African countries for which the appeal was made , there was a mix of hope , on the one hand , hope for progress in Eritrea or Liberia , Mozambique or Ethiopia and on the other hand , countries of despair Somalia that we 've heard about today , or southern Sudan and of course , Angola . |
| 5 | And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership . |
| 6 | I have n't heard about any — and you usually do hear . |
| 7 | No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the |
| 8 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 9 | The men talk as cheerfully as ever ; jests are bandied about freely ; but to me the cheer is sombre and jests are ghastly . ’ |
| 10 | Four thousand goose-grazing hours an acre are not to be bandied about lightly as a conversation stopper . |
| 11 | In appearance everything had been altered since then , and — so far as looks went — much for the better , but nearly everything he cared about most was enshrined in these earliest recollections . |
| 12 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 13 | He pulled on his respirator , his mind made up to get back to her as soon as he could , for Nell Anderson was all he cared about now . |
| 14 | Only by drawing the attention of the public to these threats would the buildings we cared about ever be saved . |
| 15 | Er now these are more important asked about so I think we should be very clear on it before er we reduce spending . |
| 16 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |
| 17 | If you have access to a camera this is a question you should think about carefully . |
| 18 | Lester is one-dimensional ; there 's nothing else he can think about apart from riding race horses , and getting a bit of money as well also helps him , so the problem is , when you 're one-dimensional , you 're lost if you 're not doing the only thing you love and understand , and that must be a bit sad . |
| 19 | It is one thing in a park , where gardeners are working full-time , but for the average amateur with a job to go to five days a week , these are the sort of things one should think about even before placing an order , let alone planting . |
| 20 | Let's just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right , manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right , that 's one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right , it 's also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now , consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright , but what 's the problem with agricultural goods ? they 're essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar . |
| 21 | Let us think about just one of these four chains . |
| 22 | Something we do n't even think about today . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ whispered Fenella , and wished that Caspar had not used the word sucking , because it made you think about coldly evil creatures with grisly appetites , who might leap on to you and cling to you and sink teeth and claws and needle-sharp pincers into you and suck out your blood and your marrow and all your life juices … |
| 24 | While you maintain involvement in terms of your behaviour , you can think about especially pertinent questions that need answering and use them to clarify or challenge . |
| 25 | And it 's proven my point , our Dawn would n't even think about there . |
| 26 | And it 's something you might think about as well , sitting at home , do you think you 're going to need care in due course , and if so , where 's it going to come from ? |
| 27 | ‘ The only thing I can think about now is being hard up . |
| 28 | Now that is all behind me and all I can think about now is winning the 1991 world championship . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think about now . |
| 30 | Well we did n't think about now . |