Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We s talked to Cath a minute or go about the full training record system . |
| 2 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 3 | Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World . |
| 4 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 5 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 6 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 7 | Just work on this and forget about the restrictive diet side of the equation . |
| 8 | I thought I could read Wordsworth and forget about the damned queue . " |
| 9 | Too much specialisation is bad for systems development ; it feeds the temptation to get engrossed in technical difficulties and forget about the underlying business needs . |
| 10 | " But I have no wish to bring dishonour on you or your family , and am quite prepared to hand him back to you and forget about the whole matter — on one condition. ; |
| 11 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 12 | Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year . |
| 13 | In sum , one could list certain properties of housework tasks , their context , or the housewife 's approach to them , which make recurrent appearances in answers given to the section of the interview dealing with what is liked and disliked about the six core housework tasks . |
| 14 | There seem to have been two main spurs to this research and writing : fascination about the intellectual origins of American republicanism and worry about the civic health of the nation especially after the trauma of the Vietnam war . |
| 15 | Bartlemas and O'Rourke came in and talked about the first night of Gielgud 's Prospero ( ‘ Doing it again , dear ’ at the National . |
| 16 | We were both tested and forgot about the whole thing till a few weeks later . |
| 17 | Peacock is unsettled at St James 's Park and confused about the managerial situation . |
| 18 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 19 | At this month 's meeting members were also entertained with a slide show and talk about the volcanic eruption at Mount Helena in the United States . |
| 20 | He could sit with his very big brandies when Claire had gone to bed and talk about the Gordian Knot of the Arbuthnot relationships . |
| 21 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 22 | Oliver grunted and strode about the paved veranda impatiently . |
| 23 | But I do know they would weigh up the dangers and think about the very fact that they could fly . |
| 24 | This month Ken takes the plunge and sets about the daunting task of buying a new machine . |
| 25 | Well we were talking about the Jordan motor racing team , and talking about the major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers Seven Up . |
| 26 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 27 | While they were drinking their tea and talking about the filthy tap water , there was a knock on the outside door . |
| 28 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |
| 29 | Both simultaneously revile and embody all that is crabbed and cankered about the shaggy fag end of English culture . |
| 30 | There was something bookish and appealing about the old lady , but we had no time to get acquainted , for brisk Mary pointed me on my way . |