Example sentences of "[verb] about in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 2 | You know , there 's a lot of symbolism that really has been lost , people do n't think about in the wedding service , but is underlying , you know , until fa fairly recently a lot of people promised to obey , erm , look at Prince Andrew and that when he got married , you know , erm , the Duchess of York actually promised to obey him |
| 3 | The guy shot tonight will be forgotten about in another few weeks … |
| 4 | An atavism is a throwback , a ‘ primitive ’ reaction ( it literally means ‘ great-grandfather 's grandfather ’ ) — something the writer must know about in himself if his work is to resonate in his readers . |
| 5 | ‘ There is n't much we do n't know about in here . |
| 6 | I do n't know about in earnest . |
| 7 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 8 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 9 | ‘ Now that her marriage has finally split , there are only two things that she cares about in life : her sons and her charity work . |
| 10 | Raskolnikov 's ‘ incomplete smile ’ is the index of those ‘ half-baked ’ ( literally , ‘ incomplete ’ ) ideas which Dostoevsky writes about in the letter to Katkov . |
| 11 | But , more importantly , a Smiths gig is merely part of a night out , something to talk about in the pub afterwards . |
| 12 | There was always something to talk about in the dressing-room . |
| 13 | ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom . |
| 14 | ‘ Because it makes a good story , something to talk about in the pubs . ’ |
| 15 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 16 | yeah and he 's spotted racism in the Atkinson et al textbook and all sorts of , all over the place so erm mm there should be something interesting to talk about in that for a start . |
| 17 | Perhaps this is , this is something we could we could , we could use to talk about in some revision seminar at the beginning of next term cos we , we , we 've sort of got up to nineteen fifty two erm maybe it would be helpful if , if sort of you know we just sat there over the vacation and then come back and sort of have look |
| 18 | I never thought I would become one of those people William is so fond of writing about in that filthy newspaper of his . ’ |
| 19 | What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them . |
| 20 | French poets , in the eleventh century , discovered or invented , or were the first to express , that romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth . |
| 21 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 22 | .. and a myriad of other details , talked about in the classroom , practised back in the Academy grounds and now for ‘ real ’ . |
| 23 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 24 | Still talked about in the glens is Angus MacGillivray , an ancient who was called in to settle a territorial dispute with a neighbour . |
| 25 | None of these qualities may actually be talked about in the home . |
| 26 | It needs to be something that is talked about in the same way that racism and sexism are talked about . |
| 27 | The need to harness and utilise such skills becomes an urgent priority if the NHS is to survive the recruitment and retention crisis so talked about in the late 1980s . |
| 28 | During the World Cup , when an ‘ Anglo-Saxon conspiracy ’ was talked about in France , I noticed that most people in England laughed , dismissing the claim as the words of a bad loser . |
| 29 | At this stage we were unsure how to deal with the social category of sex ( the way gender was talked about in those days ) . |
| 30 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |