Example sentences of "[verb] about it [prep] the [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 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 6 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 7 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 8 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 11 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 17 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 19 | The explanation is to do with the influence on one another of the communicating classes — the people who practise politics , write about it in the higher journalism , and put it on the screen . |
| 20 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 21 | to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it . |
| 22 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |