Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF YOU want to know what books are in the library or find out about the latest reports on new topics , you can now do this without leaving the comfort of your office . |
| 2 | There is likely to be a far greater appreciation of home comforts but there may also be a reluctance to answer the barrage of questions or to say much about the new life . |
| 3 | ‘ We might as well not be here , ’ Luke murmured , as their guests constantly referred to the information sheets and argued amicably about the exhibited memorabilia . |
| 4 | I 'll quickly rattle through the next one effectively nothing more has happened at Napier , they went off for their Christmas holidays about the fourth of November and came back about the nineteenth of January er , not quite as bad as that but nearly as I mean they 've even longer holidays than we 've got and we get a fortnight at Christmas and New Year |
| 5 | The temperature 's hitting the 80 's and the kids are wearing day-glo Bermuda shorts and chattering excitedly about the coming day 's events . |
| 6 | English speakers do indeed find it natural , and complain mightily about the bizarre foreign habit of assigning gender to anything from a turnip to a sideboard . |
| 7 | I am a veterinary surgeon of ten years ' experience , and feel strongly about the stray dog problem . |
| 8 | We then move one of the pencils upwards on the table , by about an inch or so , and ask again about the relative length of the pencils . |
| 9 | I might start looking round and thinking more about the educational side . |