Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [to-vb] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ I want to talk about a donation you made to Sinn Fein . |
| 3 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |
| 4 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 5 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
| 6 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 7 | That 's all , that 's only how I come to know about the treacle tins . ’ |
| 8 | I WRITE to complain about the way the council allows lorries to drive over pedestrianised roads in the city centre . |
| 9 | It is in this context of anamnesis ( of ‘ recalling ’ and ‘ reliving ’ the events of Christ 's victory ) that I wish to talk about the role of the sacraments in the spiritual life . |
| 10 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 11 | If you find that what I have to say about the specialisation is difficult , do n't worry . |
| 12 | If you want to talk about the work of an author , you need to judge how many texts to talk about and how varied your selection needs to be ( many authors write in different modes : novels , short stories , poems , diaries and letters , etc ) . |
| 13 | There are also more specialised information sources you might need to use : if you want to know about the readership of a particular contemporary magazine or newspaper , for example ( perhaps as part of a study of the relation between ideology and audience ) you could use BRAD ( " British Rate and Data " ) , which lists advertising rates and audited newspaper and magazine circulations . |
| 14 | If you want to shout about the leaf stem and the trees then call now . |
| 15 | I would appreciate any comments you want to make about the campaign and Media Action and your final evaluation of the programme . |
| 16 | ‘ Jessamyn , there are things you have to know about the treatment . ’ |
| 17 | CHAIRMAN 'S REPORT : All you need to know about the Institute of Export . |
| 18 | A lavishly produced 56-page guide ( £3 ) that tells you all you need to know about the design , construction and furnishing of your conservatory . |
| 19 | ‘ They 'll tell you all you need to know about the design department at G.W. , so kindly make sure you 've read and understood them before you report for work tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 20 | If you 're receptive to the sensations , you can feel everything you need to know about the car through these points of contact ; but if you 're tense , the car will be tense . |
| 21 | When I say that ‘ Kaptan ’ did not mean ‘ captain' but meant ‘ hawk ’ perhaps I have told you all you need to know about the Colonel 's attitude to his son 's upbringing and his expectations of him . |
| 22 | You need to think about the person 's circumstances , and that 's where it 's great , that you can come back and sit down with your manager , and he 's going to say to you well what do you think . |
| 23 | Anything else Now , just before we all er disappear , can I just quickly check what we want to do about the departure . |
| 24 | In the form of a very brief list of what we want to know about A Level , could you do it ? |
| 25 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
| 26 | The same relationship exists between particles and information when we come to talk about the velocity of light in general . |
| 27 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 28 | Finally then , in this session , we need to talk about the activity you need to put in to earn a living . |
| 29 | Freud 's view of science is not that of a simple empiricist , who assumes that , once something has been discovered in science , it remains true for all times , and that one day science will have discovered nearly all we need to know about the world and ourselves . |
| 30 | They want to talk about the AOL , of course . |