Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 2 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 3 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 4 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
| 6 | What really impresses me about players is having a unique sound , whether it 's fast or slow . |
| 7 | The thing that worries me about scientists is that they say one thing one day — like cholesterol is bad for you — and another thing the next day . ’ |
| 8 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 9 | Clearly that 's what worries me about this Government 's implementation of the Children Act . |
| 10 | The only thing that worries me about taking that out is that you then create a massive empty space , if you have got |
| 11 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 12 | The man who persistently questions you about after-sales service . |
| 13 | So y w feel free now to ask questions I mean , you must have something that worries you about about this partic I can only really talk about the exam . |
| 14 | I take it that Mr Treadwell wants her about her husband 's funeral ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That 's what frightens me about this campaign for nuclear disarmament . |
| 16 | She also upbraids me about the work I am engaged in at Schloss Hartheim . |
| 17 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 18 | In your time , Messer Niccolò , you have maimed and killed men in the flower of their youth : what disgusts you about murder in other forms ? |
| 19 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 20 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 21 | 14.50 : Teacher sees me about letter . |
| 22 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 23 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 24 | That 's what gets me about it . |
| 25 | ‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position . |
| 26 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 27 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 29 | One of the things that always puzzles me about archives is it seems to me that there must be a limited number of archives , and there are an awful number of historians . |
| 30 | I think the one thing , that that really annoys me about the royal family is the way they speak and the fact that the way that they speak is still re re regarded by certain sections of the , population , both in Scotland and in England , as being er , the correct way in which the English language should be pronounced , which is of course , arrant nonsense ! |