Example sentences of "[vb base] about [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 2 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 3 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 4 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 5 | Obviously , I think there was , erm sort of a thin line between grievous bodily harm and a good beating , but a lot of women , a lot of middle class and upper class women , were in fact beaten and disciplined quite severely , and we have records of this , you know , from people 's diaries , that actually talk about it in a very manner of , matter of fact way . |
| 6 | If it were a requirement , for example , that all pupils need knowledge , skills and understanding in non-verbal communication ( body language , facial expression , and so on ) and how this influences overall communication strategies , attainment target I for the English curriculum ( speaking and listening ) might have a more integrated feel about it from a deaf perspective . |
| 7 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 8 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 9 | you 're seventeen years old , if you 're old enough to have sex surely you 're old enough to you know , think about it in a mature way . |
| 10 | If we think about it in a creative way the blossoms will come . |
| 11 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 12 | The explanation is to do with the influence on one another of the communicating classes — the people who practise politics , write about it in the higher journalism , and put it on the screen . |