Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issues that they raised about the institutionalized nature of their oppression could not be resolved by any one local council . |
| 2 | Let your children play with these ‘ toys ’ freely so they learn about the basic properties of water . |
| 3 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 4 | doing the writing to get over in the description cos they talk about the swirling sea |
| 5 | They will disagree in some cases because they disagree about the likely consequences of a particular rule , and in others because they have different visions of what a good community is like . |
| 6 | She first visited in March last year with her mother thanks to the villagers who started an appeal when they heard about the serious burns Elena suffered in a domestic accident . |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 8 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 9 | And when he and Hugh Paddick joined together for their Julian and Sandy routine — bravely supposedly using the names , and names only , of Julian Slade and Sandy Wilson ( writers of The Boy Friend and Salad Days ) — Williams and Paddick were giving new meaning to that word ‘ gay ’ , especially when they talked about the figure-hugging black number they had bought in Carnaby Street . |
| 10 | And as they go about the painstaking task of piecing the problem together there is one solution which everyone fears . |
| 11 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |