Example sentences of "about it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do what I do to the best of my ability and hope that people will hear about it and come and visit . |
| 2 | I thought about it and it made me feel a bit better . |
| 3 | I 've been asked to write about it and I said I 'd give it a think . ’ |
| 4 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 5 | Fortunately , they were alright about it and sloped off . |
| 6 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 7 | So I supposed I 'd better tell my board about it and I did this afternoon . |
| 8 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 9 | Mrs Rosenbloom nearly always found out about it and she would be mad that he had taken me from my work with the children . |
| 10 | ‘ Look how that 's come to the fore , ’ remarked a Bristol listener , ‘ we never used to know anything about it and now there 's many would n't miss it . ’ |
| 11 | JimBardsley looked unhappy about it and his voice became aggressive . |
| 12 | Sunday lunch has a suitable sense of occasion about it and for many people it is the only time of the week when they can relax and enjoy a leisurely get-together with family or friends . |
| 13 | It has a quiet rural grace about it and , particularly in this area where gabled houses went on being built well into the eighteenth century , it displays a certain amount of daring . |
| 14 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 15 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 16 | I was so concerned that I also really did n't trust other people or stupid books to explain to me whereas usually , in most things I do , if I do n't understand them I 'll go to the library and get books and read about it and find out . |
| 17 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 18 | He 'd seen a film about it and he could remember it very well . |
| 19 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 20 | He could not stop himself from thinking about it and he shuddered , as he imagined again Simon 's hands around his neck . |
| 21 | At the same time it has remorse about it and generosity of spirit . |
| 22 | In England a debutante of 1957 , Anne Browning , looked back on her season in Dance Little Lady in similar terms : ‘ If there was sex in the bushes , no one knew about it and it certainly was n't the accepted thing . |
| 23 | In response to the burglary my reaction became : ‘ Actually when I think about it and allow all the facts to sink in it is just too awful ; there really is nothing I can do to pretend this has n't happened . |
| 24 | Although it is of course true that people can be greatly helped by having the opportunity to talk about their impending loss , ( both their worries about it and their wish to talk about it together with the person who is dying ) this must be when the time feels right for the people involved and not when the helper , professional or lay , deems it appropriate . |
| 25 | Oh , admittedly the novels are n't available there , but people got to know about it and wondered how she had the nerve to reveal it . |
| 26 | I 've thought about it and I was wrong and you were right . ’ |
| 27 | As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that . |
| 28 | Sometimes the hotel managements know about it and sometimes they do n't . ’ |
| 29 | John Major is reported to have ‘ unprintable ’ feelings about it and many ministers have expressed annoyance . |
| 30 | David has become very philsophical about it and I have to learn from that . |