Example sentences of "[adj] about what [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 2 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 3 | Be quite clear about what you 'll put up with — him being late , missing meals , giving you his laundry . |
| 4 | I felt very nervous about what she might do during the ceremony ! |
| 5 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 6 | Not too sure about what she 'd want . |
| 7 | If you 're not sure about what you should do when , contact your local Agricultural Development Advisory Service ( ADAS ) office : you 'll find it in the phone book under the section devoted to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Foods . |
| 8 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 9 | The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money , but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve . |
| 10 | Rangers manager Walter Smith still believes that Marseilles have a slight edge as they have to face Rangers at home on April 7 but he said : ‘ I 'm still optimistic about what we can do in our home games . ’ |
| 11 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 12 | if I do that you 've all got to scatter and we were really worried about what we might find . |
| 13 | Maurin said : ‘ I am surprised you brought Barbara home , Ben , if you are worried about what she might say . ’ |
| 14 | And then he became even more worried about what she might get up to with a lover . |
| 15 | She always has been , and me and Lily get worried about what she might get up to . |
| 16 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 17 | The trouble is , those images do n't just appeal to girls , they give them complexes about themselves ; worrying about what they should look like , act like , talk like , walk like . |
| 18 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 19 | ‘ The recession may have made a difference in the sense that people are being more realistic about what they can afford , ’ said the magazine 's associate editor Fenella Willis . |
| 20 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 21 | At first Kate was frightened about what they 'd find to talk about , but she need n't have worried . |