Example sentences of "[vb base] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This love for their land is refreshing — they consistently enthuse about their country rather than being swift to bad-mouth it — and it is also reflected in their desire to protect large areas from exploitation . |
| 2 | 1 Next time you admit a patient use the information you gain about his home circumstances and your knowledge about the operation he is to undergo to try and decide what care he might need when he leaves hospital . |
| 3 | She would be sure to make such a song and dance about her aching feet that she would get right to the head of the queue for the room-key — well , apart from Mrs Roscoe , naturally ! ’ |
| 4 | I also said that banks were not sufficiently up-front about their charges and made some suggestions for changes , such as displaying a poster in each branch and printing details on statements . |
| 5 | Yet doubts remain about its heavy lending to property developers and over-borrowed companies . |
| 6 | See what I mean about her being a real character ! |
| 7 | See what you mean about your dumplings being crispy . |
| 8 | He must think she was babbling like a schoolgirl , but there was nothing even remotely schoolgirlish about her growing awareness of this man . |
| 9 | Write down the claims the manufacturers make about their products . |
| 10 | A force which holds one powerfully back from such opinions is however Sam Gamgee , who counterpoints the most solemn moments of crossing with banalities like ‘ Live and learn ! ’ and chatter about his uncle Andy ( who used to have a rope-walk at Tighfield ) . |
| 11 | Let the bizarre and miraculous elements which the New Testament documents narrate about his activity be relegated to those far-off apostolic days : it would be very embarrassing and doctrinally untidy if the Holy Spirit were to speak to men today , or to enable miracles to be performed and men to speak in tongues not their own . |
| 12 | No matter what people say about her character , they have to grudgingly admit that she 's a stunning actress . |
| 13 | It is one of the glories of the Old Testament that its writers are seldom over-careful about what they say about their God . |
| 14 | The continuing separation between those who are interested in what people say about their experiences ( psychoanalysts , psychotherapists , counsellors , phenomenologists , novelists ) and those who pay attention only to what they do ( behaviourist psychologists , human ethologists ) is based upon important choices in research orientation related to conceptions of the social role and implications of the studies themselves . |
| 15 | A more positive view of women readers has been suggested by , for instance , analysing what girls say about their reading ( Frazer 1987 ) , or by examining the ways in which they incorporate its models into their own writing . |
| 16 | The trouble is that the awful things parents say about their children , often repeated , not usually ‘ meant ’ except in the heat of the moment , tend to stick . |
| 17 | Erm I do n't think we need to talk about parents ' rights , I think we need to look much more at the needs of children and I think we need to listen to children , er particularly when there 's conflict , we need to hear what they say about their parents , about what their needs should be . |
| 18 | New patients ' NHS notes are essential for general practitioners : they contain specific details of past treatment and confirm what the patients say about their current treatment . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Father , I know what people say about my Mickey , but as you know yourself , stories get stretched in the telling . |
| 20 | Oh say , say about my fault , I should n't want to pay |
| 21 | say about my fruit salad ? |
| 22 | ‘ What do independent experts say about our 10 extra pages ? ’ asks the advertisement . |
| 23 | And what do the answers to those questions say about your ability to be your company 's next marketing director , finance director or even chief executive ? |
| 24 | His sorry tale is one long whinge about his own suffering — his lack of sex , his loneliness , his sleeplessness . |
| 25 | But this would itself be merely an instance of the general fact that with most sentences it is possible for two people to understand them but disagree about their truth . |
| 26 | Or when the dimensions of a string of precedents are uncertain and lawyers disagree about their force . |
| 27 | When a beam of light strikes the atoms or molecules of the medium , the electrons are perturbed or displaced and oscillate about their equilibrium positions with the same frequency as the exciting beam . |
| 28 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 29 | Well , forget about his dagger , where was his sabre ? |
| 30 | Ensure that your child does n't rely on his emergency bronchodilator , or forget about his condition after he 's had an attack . |