Example sentences of "[to-vb] about the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat me down and as the camera whirred , I was encouraged to ramble about the past . |
| 2 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Work , leisure , social stratification , social control , patterns of family life , the Church , and so on will be likely headings used to stimulate the respondent to talk about the past . |
| 5 | ‘ But I do n't want to talk about the past , ’ I said . |
| 6 | Klein et al ( 1965 ) found that many older people hesitated to talk about the past because they did not want to meet with rejection , and that many actually needed help and encouragement to reminisce . |
| 7 | Taking the time to talk about the past , focusing on the experience of the counsellee in all its detail and complexity , can help to establish the counselling relationship . |
| 8 | ( b ) Historical Labels Although historians examine evidence in minute detail , they are still forced to generalise about the past . |
| 9 | ‘ Anything you 'd like to have been able to keep about the past ? ’ |
| 10 | My main research technique , participant observation , was coupled with informal interviews to learn about the past and about areas of life I could not observe . |
| 11 | This is just one example of many which encourages all of us to think about the past or the future — but never to be aware of the present . |
| 12 | ‘ But they 're not meant to think about the past , you know , and life before Entering , they really start from when they became Brides of Christ . |
| 13 | It is tiring to think about the past . |