Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a lie-down to recover I set about this mammoth task and after much intensified opening of envelopes the winner of 30 , yes THIRTY Hi-Tec games became clear . |
| 2 | So I brought about twenty-two earthquakes |
| 3 | And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit . |
| 4 | After all , what did the Marshal himself remember about that morning other than the snow ? |
| 5 | They actually lessen the possibilities of guilt and remorse being felt by the young person for the behaviour which brought about such action . |
| 6 | These culminated in the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act , which brought about some radical changes in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 7 | Bradford , who forced 11 corners in the game , became more and more desperate and resorted to throwing crosses into the box which brought about some desperate defending at times , but Quakers could have made the game safe after 79 minutes when Cook found David Cork unmarked inside the box , but the striker , after turning well , shot straight at Tomlinson . |
| 8 | The problem has been augmented over the past two years by the US recession , which brought about more company failures , and the savings and loan debacle . |
| 9 | This causes the anterior pituitary gland to release Luteinizing Hormone , which brings about complete growth of the ovarian follicles and causes some of them to rupture ( ovulation ) , releasing their egg-cells from the ovaries to become available for fertilisation within the oviducts . |
| 10 | well not just a tiny bit , you put about half way up do n't you Paul ? |
| 11 | ‘ The only visitor was the messenger who arrived about that time and left a message that the King would be coming to Kinghorn later that day ! ’ |
| 12 | I daresay you heard about that joke-night among the London literati . ’ |
| 13 | Seeing the screen confirmed for her everything she remembered about that evening , and proved Ross 's story . |
| 14 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 15 | Lord God , as we set about this work , we ask that you will lead us step by step . |
| 16 | If I touched your arm , if we smiled at one another , if we talked about that day and the rainstorm and the shock of the butts recoiling against our cheeks and Halliday dead on the moor . |
| 17 | Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind . |
| 18 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 19 | There are two sorts of Mudhoney show : the one where they piss about all night and sceptics just scratch bonces and bugger off , and the one where they rip through their best songs , old and new , with hardly a murmur and plenty of bovver . |
| 20 | Undaunted they set about flinging ropes over and , one by one , clambered across the yawning gap . |
| 21 | They set about this task with great enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Hungry and often lonely , they hung about all day for the warmth and company , for Libion 's good coffee and the hot croissants , soup and ham sandwiches and red wine they could barter for their work . |
| 23 | They start about half way down tha oh you 've you 've seen |
| 24 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 25 | A man is what he thinks about all day long . |
| 26 | His not writing more frequently is really excusable , as you would acknowledge could you follow his movements as he slaves about all day in untiring perseverance … ’ |
| 27 | Sometimes , when he thought about that day , as he did occasionally , it occurred to him that this was the first instance of railways being able to distract him from the pains of life . |
| 28 | The more he thought about that summer the pleasanter it seemed . |
| 29 | When that failed , he set about misleading man 's understanding of Jesus . |
| 30 | I am arguing against it because on the one hand it brings about environmental improvements in the town centre which according to the latest published government information which as as Mr has has himself said , i is stricter th th than we had published previously . |