Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her . |
| 2 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 3 | You ca n't get anybody to come down to see about it . |
| 4 | The hero of modern times is the individual , and Wordsworth only knew one individual well enough to write about — himself ! |
| 5 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 6 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 7 | think feminism has to provide a unified , positive alternative for all women , in order for them to be able not only to know about but to reject and try to escape subordination ( 1979 : 129 ) . |
| 8 | The role of women 's publications is not only to inform about products , events and issues of interests to both women and men , but to discuss styles of living . |
| 9 | ‘ Time enough to worry about that . |
| 10 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 11 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 12 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 13 | Only to talk about the contract and the copy . |
| 14 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
| 15 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 16 | I think his pleasure was merely to talk about it in that calm way to a completely ignorant young girl . |
| 17 | But it is not enough to talk about ‘ jobs ’ as if , provided enough people have jobs , all is well . |
| 18 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 19 | I was just going to say , I was just saying , that I saw the posters that erm parents and carers should erm , go along to talk about parenting and at the bottom it said , erm , will be selling multi-racial toys and dolls and things like that . |
| 20 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 21 | Well it is possible of course and I think that er the European Nations , including those in Eastern Europe er ought to be getting together to consult about what we can do , because I do n't think it 's right simply to send these refugees back as the er Italians have been doing , er in fact there likely to be amongst . |
| 22 | Strangers bend their heads together to talk about me . |
| 23 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 24 | Hundreds of people from all over the world have come together to talk about elves , hobbits and dragons . |
| 25 | Despite occasional misgivings , however , he was optimistic enough to speculate about the form which the next Labour Government might take … |
| 26 | Enough to fill about |
| 27 | I think it 's much to do about nothing quite honestly . |
| 28 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 29 | He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake . |
| 30 | Their relatively humdrum job these days is merely to argue about the best mechanism for finding out what the people want , the best way of looking after the country 's interests abroad and , in economics , the rival merits of maximising productive efficiency and maximising compassion for the poor devils who get least out of the efficiency . |