Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of parents and teachers have lobbied Parliament to protest about the government 's plan to cut help for pupils whose first language is n't English . |
| 2 | The first viewing of a sequence can be done without sound so that the learner has time to think about the place , the people and the situation before having to cope with what they are saying . |
| 3 | Find time to think about the way you find time to think about making profit . |
| 4 | We use language to talk about the meanings of linguistic expressions as well as about things that are not meanings . |
| 5 | Gary Sick , the aide to Zbigniew Brzezinski on Iranian affairs , has written that the Shah 's last minute decision to visit Egypt completely disrupted the complex arrangements made for his arrival in the US " and gave rise to concern about the Shah 's real intentions . " |
| 6 | Because while from the safety of our historical vantage point we may doubt whether this kind of incident was anything more than an isolated occurrence , and while the details leave room to quibble about the gravity of the wounding cases , to commentators at the turn of the century here was a sure sign that something dangerously new was afoot , which had come all-too-terribly alive in the person of the ‘ Hooligan ’ . |
| 7 | I WAS very sorry to read that Mrs Drury had cause to complain about the Nightstick car alarm ( Echo March 9 ) . |
| 8 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |