Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President , as far as Mick 's concerned , yes you 're quite right Mick , my report says about the Saudi deal . |
| 2 | Ten minutes later , the president of my bank calls about the same subject . |
| 3 | He 's been visiting family ; I 'm on my way to write about the Russian submarines in Murmansk — maybe interview a submarine officer if I am lucky . |
| 4 | Ways of Reading invites its readers to think about the whole field of English Studies , and the closely related areas of cultural studies , linguistics , stylistics and , to a lesser extent , criticism . |
| 5 | A member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild remembered working as a nursemaid to a doctor 's family at the age of nine in 1867 , and being unable to read or write , could not let her parents know about the unkind treatment she received . |
| 6 | Ironically , in some cultures ( e.g. UK ) , many of these people will spend much of their time complaining about the very structure and rationality they were seeking . |
| 7 | THE PUNK generation now spend half their time whining about the smothering blanket of baby boomer nostalgia . |
| 8 | Beardsmoor and he sheep says about the Canadian soc social psychologist |
| 9 | Nutty guessed that some instinct told Sam to keep his mouth shut about the knacker-yard history . |
| 10 | Michael Mashelle , regional agriculture and livestock development officer , says that although his department knows about the giant cassava , it has no funds for research . |
| 11 | If the price goes up 9% and his costs stay about the same maybe up 5% or so , er his actual bottom line is his income at the end of the year will in fact increase by about 60% . |
| 12 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has spent a great deal of his speech talking about the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 13 | I tried to apply what Wittgenstein says about the dual use of the word ‘ strain' to the dual use of the word ‘ hot ’ , and wrote up my conclusions in a paper entitled ‘ Berkeley and Sensations of Heat . ’ |
| 14 | It must be understood , however , that church attendance is a very uncertain guide to what people think about the great mystery of life and death . |
| 15 | So once again its , its , its your responsibility to complain about the ill that has been done to you , yes . |
| 16 | Sir , — I was sad to read the letter from your correspondent complaining about the hard-hitting anti-fox hunting poster . |
| 17 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |