Example sentences of "about it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But needed some kind of help : she 'd spoken about it for months before and was utterly thrilled when Jay drawled an interest . |
| 2 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 3 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 4 | The primitive ceremony which came soonest to Eliot 's mind , whether in his ‘ Beating of a Drum ’ or in 1926 when he spoke of savages who ‘ believe that the ritual is performed in order to induce a fall of rain' , was rain-making , probably because he had read about it for his 1913 seminar paper . |
| 5 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 6 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 7 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 8 | I think about it for a bit . |
| 9 | I think about it for a bit . |
| 10 | I open my eyes and think about it for a bit . |
| 11 | I think about it for a bit , then I ask her if I can afford some sandwiches . |
| 12 | I think about it for a bit , then I get up and go over to the shops . |
| 13 | I think about it for a bit , then I go in . |
| 14 | I have n't heard about it for years . |
| 15 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 16 | A candid confession to youthful pot-smoking , it is generally agreed , is no longer a disqualification for office , but the sore part of the latest wound — pretty mild by Clinton standards — was that he had been evasive when asked repeatedly about it for at least seven years and that even last week 's admission was shifty . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ The Home Secretary is responsible for immigration and has made speeches about it for many months . |
| 18 | Why not talk it over with your family and think about it for a week or two ? ’ |
| 19 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |
| 20 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 21 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 22 | Somebody told me it was handmade but I did n't know anything about it for years . |
| 23 | I also knew a great deal about it for , in the records room at the Bodleian , there was a tin trunk irreverently nicknamed ‘ Miss Jourdain 's baby ’ by the staff . |
| 24 | ( You do n't have to think about it for another fortnight . ) |
| 25 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |
| 26 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 27 | Although most wireless owners had opened their doors so that people could listen to the King 's message , Mr Peters talked about it for those who had missed it . |
| 28 | ‘ There was nothing special about it for me , ’ said Hirst , the subject of a £3.5 million bid by United . |
| 29 | They thought about it for a while . |
| 30 | Bellybutton , kneeling over his work , thought about it for a second , then spread his hands in a gesture of ignorance . |