Example sentences of "[verb] about it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 3 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 4 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 5 | It is n't one of the large free-standing circular linkers ( through Silver do have one of these and I hope to write about it in a later article ) . |
| 6 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 7 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 8 | Negative programming can be general or specific and , unless something is done about it at a later date , its effects can last a lifetime . |
| 9 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 10 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 11 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 12 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 13 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 14 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 15 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 16 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 17 | Obviously , I think there was , erm sort of a thin line between grievous bodily harm and a good beating , but a lot of women , a lot of middle class and upper class women , were in fact beaten and disciplined quite severely , and we have records of this , you know , from people 's diaries , that actually talk about it in a very manner of , matter of fact way . |
| 18 | If it were a requirement , for example , that all pupils need knowledge , skills and understanding in non-verbal communication ( body language , facial expression , and so on ) and how this influences overall communication strategies , attainment target I for the English curriculum ( speaking and listening ) might have a more integrated feel about it from a deaf perspective . |
| 19 | We could go about it in a friendly manner then — like people who have just met . |
| 20 | And I did n't go about it in a bombastic way or anything like that , I just gave them their orders you see , the two shunters . |
| 21 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 23 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 24 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 29 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 30 | Well think about it for a long time |