Example sentences of "about it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually her passion was an explosion of ecstasy , at a face , a voice , a mannerism ; usually she did nothing about it beyond engineering to spend time in The Presence . |
| 2 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 3 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 4 | people do understand that there ar , if there 's a problem and you can do something about it without being a hero , as Mark said then something should be done . |
| 5 | She thought about it without finding any kind of answer , and then she thought about the futures of her nursery-school children and others among the children of Dynmouth . |
| 6 | I am distressed enough about it without having you people coming here , interrupting my work . ’ |
| 7 | It had been such a traumatic , agonising time , even now she could n't talk about it without feeling pain . |
| 8 | The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll hear about it over tea . |
| 10 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 11 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 12 | You can tell us about it over the meal . " |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not going to tell you about it over the phone . |
| 14 | He said he 'd think about it over the weekend , and let Paul know on the Monday . |
| 15 | I 'll tell you and Papa about it over tea , if I may . ’ |
| 16 | Shall we talk about it over that cup of tea ? ’ |
| 17 | He thought about it over the weekend and accepted . |
| 18 | No that was that was the Friday and as it says th well I do n't know if it says there or not , but they said what would happen , they 'd think about it over the weekend and they 'd contact me the Monday afternoon erm to make a final decision . |
| 19 | I thinking about it over erm er coffee sir , I I I think the answer is an adder erm because its smaller than an elephant , it 's indigenous to the United Kingdom , it blends into the landscape , but if you ignore it it could be just as injurious to your health . |
| 20 | If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering . |
| 21 | It can be very upsetting to have good shots spoiled in this way ; once the noise is on the tape there 's not much you can do about it except dub it out with a substitute background sound ( see page 80 ) . |
| 22 | The result is that we know nothing about it except its external face , how its economy worked , and that has mostly been described by unsympathetic observers . |
| 23 | Yes , because actually thinking about it across the board , those energetic women in soaps have been married off or calmed down . |
| 24 | ‘ This is not just a ward issue , people are worried about it across the town . |
| 25 | But it does , so , she said she has n't got an up to date highway code knows anything about it about taking repair in narrow street . |
| 26 | Every family with a young man knows they may lose him to the war , and they are as furious about it as a swarm of bees . |
| 27 | Everybody 's been doing it , but they 've not thought about it as a design process and they have not usually brought people with design skills into the team to make these things happen better . |
| 28 | They talk about it as an expenditure and not as an investment . |
| 29 | I liked writing but was very insecure about it as a lot of people ( NME , THE FACE etc ) took the piss out of it . |
| 30 | Then , reverting to his chosen , statesmanlike stance , he added : ‘ Anyway , we should not be talking about it as if it 's just bread and circuses . |