Example sentences of "[adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 8 | In addition to its obvious use as a cultural asset , we might also provide part-time courses for local people to come in to learn about Art History and to use the collections in the Barber as their source material . |
| 9 | Glance at the paper ; no particular interest in petrol queues or Ireland without Whitelaw , so he settled down to think about Jacqui and Steen . |
| 10 | Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba . |
| 11 | what about that erm , what about that other place that er timber place on the way to Kilkern erm we went there , you , oh you went in to ask about some walnut , do you remember when er |
| 12 | Your correspondent went on to speculate about the likely cost of reinsuring through this vehicle the 1982 account of syndicates 317/661 , managed by this company . |
| 13 | He goes on to talk about ( a ) fly-fishing ( b ) car repair bills ( c ) rugger , with Paul while his hand is up Kate . |
| 14 | ( Saint Teresa goes on to talk about the ill-effects of reading for amusement — specifically reading books of chivalry — but that does not invalidate this demonstration of the role of reading and play in childhood . ) |
| 15 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 16 | From the ordinary subjects of casual conversation — books , recent plays , acquaintances they had in common — he had gone on to talk about himself . |
| 17 | Barnes went on to talk about the valuation of the estate , applying for probate and the possibility of Inheritance Tax . |
| 18 | She went on to talk about the shop , giving Myra no time to say anything else about Roman . |
| 19 | We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying . |
| 20 | The stories are painful and shocking , but the book goes on to talk about the urgent need to ’ resist the false promise of reproductive technologies ’ and on the positive side , re-thinking fertility and infertility , and working toward women-respecting alternatives . |
| 21 | Let's go on to talk about I assume you know this . |
| 22 | Erm he then goes on to talk about erm eliminating banditry erm wh which basically erm where the peasant associations are powerful enough erm , you know , where the people rise up bandi bandits do n't exist because the people have risen up and you know are , are , are strong enough because they 've got swords , because they 've got spears , they 've joined together to , to get rid of the bandits . |
| 23 | I looked up the subject , Justice , in the new dictionary , and it said , To Treat Justly , or to Treat Fairly , and then it went on to talk about legal justice . |
| 24 | Then over to see about the feed stores . |
| 25 | Said Danny , ‘ After I and a BR Personnel Manager had welcomed the men and women , Alan took over to talk about National Insurance contributions and benefits . |
| 26 | A diner called the waiter over to complain about his food . |
| 27 | Now considering there was at least 1,000 miles of sand between Baghdad and Damascus , everybody who heard this remark had hysterics , everybody except for the stupid young officer who went off to think about this . |
| 28 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |
| 29 | It 's , it 's amazing how many folk come up to see about it , and they , they decide eventually not to . |
| 30 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |