Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 2 | To talk about everything from the fact that you do n't fancy coffee that week to things which are deeply personal . |
| 3 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 4 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 5 | Have to be able to talk about it to the owners tonight . |
| 6 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
| 7 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 9 | Yes well erm we 're still going to have to talk about it with the elders you see . |
| 10 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 11 | But , still , he liked to hear about it from the others . |
| 12 | I got to hear about it from the police . ’ |
| 13 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 14 | She laughed delightedly , too happy to care about anything but the fact that her trip had brought her an undreamed-of surprise . |
| 15 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 16 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |