Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very careful never to admire things or enthuse about things . |
| 2 | A big woman , bigger than her husband , nothing cowed or mean about the way she stood . |
| 3 | In other cases there were no restrictions on numbers of temporary workers or the duration of their employment , merely a requirement to inform or consult about their use . |
| 4 | No , no that did n't fit the description of anything we had ever seen or heard about . |
| 5 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 6 | 63% of those managing directors and IT directors interviewed had heard of DTI 's Open Systems Technology Transfer programme , with 47% having read or heard about aspects of Open Systems through DTI material — beating ‘ Technical Press ’ ( 44% ) into second place . |
| 7 | Whatever you may have read or heard about their relationship still can not prepare you for her own account . |
| 8 | Cos nobody 's been sent any notices for it or notified about it . |
| 9 | After all , not many business executives or lawyers write satirical novels or plays about their own profession . |
| 10 | There 's nothing human like hearing or seeing or pitying or helping about him . |
| 11 | With the literal meaning of writing or drawing about whores , it may be applied nowadays to practically anything which affects the senses and excites sexual associations . |
| 12 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 13 | Or to worry about the thin but penetrating drizzle that greeted him when he finally emerged from the subway . |
| 14 | More pressingly , it depends on how much one knows or cares about the detail of Irish nationalist politics or about the practicalities of occultism . |
| 15 | It can also lead to narrowness in that staff may have technical and specialist information in a single field but little concern or understanding about the work of other departments . |
| 16 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 17 | You could never be sure what she was going to feel , do or say about anything . |
| 18 | Your local social services department should be able to advise you about help which it may provide or know about . |
| 19 | At Shell , we 're always open to our Customers ' suggestions , questions , complaints , even compliments — and anything else they want to say or know about Shell . |
| 20 | On our return from the Celtic path , I asked my guide if there was anything else I should see or know about . |
| 21 | With an RPC , if the remote machine is down then the request either has to be repeated or forgotten about , which makes writing predictable or robust applications difficult . |
| 22 | Now John was not afraid to tell somebody as great as John that he was wrong and I see no reason why this general assembly should be afraid or inhibited about telling the authorities that they are wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ Or forget about it . ’ |
| 24 | Ensure that your child does n't rely on his emergency bronchodilator , or forget about his condition after he 's had an attack . |
| 25 | I can er either buy one in Asda or somewhere or forget about it and have a fresh tree . |
| 26 | Instead the article , obviously based on interviews with my critics , attacked what I had said or written about IQ in other places . |
| 27 | If , on the other hand , you do not let yourself pay attention to your symptoms , or worry about whether they are there or not , then it is less likely the vicious circle will be set up and so the symptoms will not get worse . |
| 28 | or worry about their performance as compared with that of |
| 29 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 30 | ‘ What appeals to people is the normality of the show , there is nothing do or die about it which makes it very easy to relate to it . |