Example sentences of "[verb] about it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ) . |
2 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
3 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
4 | Negative programming can be general or specific and , unless something is done about it at a later date , its effects can last a lifetime . |
5 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
6 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We could go about it in a friendly manner then — like people who have just met . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
12 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
15 | Well think about it for a long time |
16 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
17 | you 're seventeen years old , if you 're old enough to have sex surely you 're old enough to you know , think about it in a mature way . |
18 | If we think about it in a creative way the blossoms will come . |
19 | When the council threatened to raise the rents some of the local men started arguing about it in a local pub . |
20 | You can talk about it to a close friend , though , which very often helps to ease the situation and subsequently make yourself better . |
21 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
22 | The way that most materialists try to reconcile their flight from behaviourism with their materialist world picture is to say that when V sees something , and BS observes V 's brain , BS knows everything about V 's mental states that V himself knows , but that he knows about it in a different way . |