Example sentences of "about it all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shame about it all really . ’ |
| 2 | There 's a littleness about it all : again it must not be seen as mere chance that we encounter Swift 's Lilliput on the first page of the novel . |
| 3 | As a 15-year-old still at school I was n't too sure about it all . |
| 4 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 5 | Tony offered to walk back towards the vehicle , now a long way off , and left me to think about it all . |
| 6 | Despite the British media 's gleeful acceptance of its role as Prophet of Destruction ( there are two television crews and several war correspondents here ) , the average Cagliari businessman appears very relaxed about it all . |
| 7 | Britons complain about it all the time : nominal interest rates at 15–20% , depending on the borrower , make most managers believe that their capital costs more than anybody 's . |
| 8 | It 's just that I 've got this feeling about it all . |
| 9 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 10 | Twenty-one years later at Claiborne Farm in Kentucky , Sir Ivor can still laugh about it all . |
| 11 | One goes on about it all the time , saying she must go on a diet , and start jogging and stuff , the other one does n't . |
| 12 | It is always fascinating to talk about the craft of conducting but in the end there is a certain mystery about it all . |
| 13 | We watch as friendships come apart at the seams , as lives of promise collapse under the weight of illness or despair or disillusion , but there is a reckless exhilaration about it all . |
| 14 | ‘ He is so laid back about it all . |
| 15 | I know you 're unhappy , but you ca n't sit indoors and brood about it all day . ’ |
| 16 | At the comparative safety of a deserted road we collected ourselves a little and then headed for the station , trying hard to chuckle about it all , though obviously we had both been deeply affected . |
| 17 | He thought he might write a book about it all . |
| 18 | The couple decided to visit Gregory , who they say was very apologetic about it all . |
| 19 | Penny and her Second , Sylvia , talked about it all the way to the corner where Sylvia turned off for home , and Penny only remembered her lost budgie again when Sylvia said goodbye and added : ‘ I do hope you find Kelpie soon , Penny . ’ |
| 20 | What we say about it all |
| 21 | ‘ It 's almost best to just forget about it all , is n't it ? |
| 22 | The little boys were so matter-of-fact about it all . |
| 23 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 24 | If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ? |
| 25 | New Scientist kept a lofty attitude about it all by celebrating three anniversaries in the history of space flight , or , alternatively , dropped its gaze discreetly on to the Mary Rose , about to surface from the Solent . |
| 26 | There was an odd sort of camaraderie about it all , as if we were the front-line troops in battle . |
| 27 | You were detached about it all , were n't you ? |
| 28 | These men could at least enter imaginatively into the spirit of a male institution such as the manyatta : there was something familiar about it all , even if they were not quite sure what , and this familiarity contributed to the ease they felt in the company of the Masai . |
| 29 | We can only conclude that it was chiefly in the enthusiasm with which the British talked about it all . |
| 30 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |