Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 2 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 3 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
| 4 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |
| 5 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |
| 6 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 7 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
| 8 | It 's almost like I want to write about the people who are in our songs , rather than what happens to them . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 10 | What am I going to do about the ears ? |
| 11 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 12 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 13 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
| 14 | I was very pleased ; I loved to hear about the people and places that she saw . |
| 15 | Thanks to Geoff 's example , as a social worker specialising in alcohol problems I started to learn about the interaction between alcohol and depression . |
| 16 | I started to worry about the curfew . |
| 17 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
| 18 | It mattered not that after weeks of interviews with 35 Palestinian families in Lebanon , I chose to write about the experiences only of those who had no immediate connection with the Palestinian guerrilla movement . |
| 19 | Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act . |
| 20 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
| 21 | ‘ Am I allowed to ask about the pills ? ’ |
| 22 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 23 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 24 | That 's all , that 's only how I come to know about the treacle tins . ’ |
| 25 | I WRITE to complain about the way the council allows lorries to drive over pedestrianised roads in the city centre . |
| 26 | It is in this context of anamnesis ( of ‘ recalling ’ and ‘ reliving ’ the events of Christ 's victory ) that I wish to talk about the role of the sacraments in the spiritual life . |
| 27 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 28 | If you find that what I have to say about the specialisation is difficult , do n't worry . |
| 29 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 30 | Have I written all I wanted to write about the room , or have I left out something important ? |