Example sentences of "about [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could can prime them up on what to say and types of things to talk about so they do n't get moaned down or something ! |
| 2 | The roadside parking was more limited in those days , but of course there were far fewer cars about so we had no problems on that score , and the walk up to the lower tier was over in minutes . |
| 3 | With this it dawned on me what they were talking about so I became more attentive . |
| 4 | There were no guards about so I tip-toed along the gallery . |
| 5 | Er now these are more important asked about so I think we should be very clear on it before er we reduce spending . |
| 6 | Though what I am trying to do is just explore all these possible lines of thoughts erm in a political way , alright , but they do n't work out neatly and these critics got quite excited about so I thought I ought to point them out to you but you 're quite right in pointing out that they do n't work out neatly , O K. So we 've got to , where have we got to with George ? |
| 7 | Well you 're , you 're saying that you build up information about so you 're actually writing that information on these |
| 8 | Well really that 's l by and large what groups is all about so it 's clearly that they do and there 's some cases here of sort of cyclists cycling harder and faster when they 've got they 're training with other cyclists or erm when they 're training against the clock . |
| 9 | No one about so she went in . |
| 10 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
| 11 | those shell fish things they 're always on about in they get out the rocks |
| 12 | I mean what about apparently we eat more chocolate than any other country . |
| 13 | When we talk about online we 're talking about the ability for the software infrastructure to support decision support and transaction processing . |
| 14 | about fucking I 'll have a pint of lager please . |
| 15 | You see I mean it it did occur to me that er erm on on the three occasions that we 've done this now , it always turns out to be er me involved in about just you know either playing the piano or something else in just about everything . |
| 16 | Only the barest biographical outline is sketched , only one anecdote is related about him , and no information is recorded about any he may have endowed or any works he may have written . |
| 17 | It 's nothing to be bothered about really you know it it 's a good thing to do . |
| 18 | And if you want to become a manager one day , the more you know about now he or she survives , the better . |
| 19 | That 's what we 're talking about now I think . |
| 20 | This lady we 're on about now she 's she must be on forty , fifty a day . |
| 21 | ‘ There are quite a few things about today I have n't liked , Mr Bryce . |
| 22 | What are they gon na do about surely you have n't forgotten ? |
| 23 | If that 's what it 's all about well we just wo n't bother , you know . |
| 24 | Cos it was written by men about well they would n't have known that though would they ? |
| 25 | I keep burning , I bet I did n't , I thought , pardon me , positive mm I popped round , I went in yesterday I 'm going to say something and then he 's going on about well I 've sold me car to pay the mortgage and |
| 26 | Ooh and another that 's what I wanted to tell you about well I do n't think we can help him out . |
| 27 | and he 's the same age as granddad , I could n't believe it and he was saying about well I 'm seventy one this year actually younger than my dad and he looks really old and we were |
| 28 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 29 | About here I was I just had the urge you know |
| 30 | Look at what you 've written and think , Oh I was just fumbling about here I did n't know where I was going . |