Example sentences of "go about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I WOULD LIKE TO TRY BONDAGE BUT I DO N'T KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT IT . ’ |
| 2 | Now is n't this a more civilised way to go about things ? |
| 3 | Although this may seem a very tedious way to go about things , it is the only sure method of success . |
| 4 | This may sound a rather aggressive and mercenary way to go about things , but it is the philosophy to which I am referring , rather than your personal approach . |
| 5 | Princesse Mat always knew how to go about things . |
| 6 | That was no way to go about things . |
| 7 | ‘ I know it 's not a good way to go about things , ’ said Peter . |
| 8 | The whole system of things and people which surrounds us coerces us to be conformist ; even if you want to be a social rebel you will still have to go about things in a conventional way if you are to gain recognition and not be rated as insane . |
| 9 | No they just seemed to know how to go about things a hell of a lot better than we did . |
| 10 | It 's not the right way to go about things |
| 11 | They do n't know how to go about things . |
| 12 | This difference is emphasized when one examines how Porter proposes to go about cost reduction . |
| 13 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 14 | He further indicated how the Department hopes to go about restructuring . |
| 15 | The anthropologist who goes about things in this hard way ought not to fall into the error of supposing that kinship is " a thing in itself " . |
| 16 | And John mentioned the sleazy way that this Tory government goes about things . |
| 17 | The guy who really got me going about painting was John Bellany . |
| 18 | The guy who really got me going about painting was John Bellany . |
| 19 | This seems an odd way of going about things , but the advising panels do carry a professional adviser so that talent is not merely being judged by local civil servants . |
| 20 | The existence of a ‘ done order of going about things ’ , even though it may be strange to us , enables us to cope . |
| 21 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 22 | UNIVERSITIES that build science parks and — innovation centres ’ as a way of establishing links with business could be going about things in the wrong way , according to a new report . |
| 23 | The mammals of the northern hemisphere have a quite different way of going about things . |
| 24 | The early emphasis upon the powerful house-trained group going about things the proper way built up a picture of group influence and success within the context of the play of a moderate and restrained politics . |
| 25 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 26 | I 've got ta advise people of the correct forms , the correct er , way of going about things and what benefits there are available . |
| 27 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 28 | I think that 's a prudent way of going about things , it 's responsive t to the questions which you might possibly have read and but it does n't make over optimistic assessments about the likely savings that the council control . |
| 29 | erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things . |
| 30 | People are more wary about what is happening into our planet and how we should go about things , and how we should be perceived to be going about things . |