Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] about the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must think about the time that you have available to spend with an animal . |
| 2 | I tried to reason with her that he should know about the baby but she refused to call back or write to him . |
| 3 | They should learn about the nature and purpose of impersonal styles of writing , and the vocabulary and grammar characteristic of those styles , eg the use of the passive voice and of other ways of depersonalising text — such as not using pronouns . |
| 4 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 5 | Superintendent Mercer had selected his two sergeants with an eye to contrast or , perhaps , with a view to satisfying any prejudices which Dalgliesh might harbour about the age and experience of his subordinates . |
| 6 | Europe ? well we could beat about the bush but there 's not a single rep on the road that ever gets out the office so got ta win it cos I actually saw I actually we I actually saw her go out and see a customer so she must she must be er |
| 7 | Auntie Lou said she could sew a piece of material on the bottom to lengthen the skirt but there was nothing she could do about the top and Carrie cried a little , privately , not because the dress was no use but because her mother should have guessed how much she had grown . |
| 8 | Only Mr Hattersley could prophesy about the past and still get it wrong . |
| 9 | Because the service was so good they 'd all , you know , they 'd forget about the delivery that would be there . |
| 10 | It would be a help if I could get about the countryside when he was working . |
| 11 | Or , they 'd talk about the party and say , hey what about Neil 's girlfriend ! |
| 12 | After that I read every book I could find about the rise and fall of the Dervish Empire . |
| 13 | We intend to change all that tonight and hopefully answer many questions you may have about the purchase and maintenance of a motor car . |
| 14 | actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to Christine the time she goes down and back I mean things are dear in , but some of the things in the shop now , and then , are cheaper than down the town , so if you take your , your bus |
| 15 | Well let's forget about that , let's forget about the two thousand odd people who 've said no , let's forget about the fact that there were these accidents in that road , because no we 've got the M forty the A forty four — well the A thirty four as it was — has been relieved of a lot of traffic and from a point of view from the Gipsy Working Party Committee they may well feel that they are even more entitled to go ahead with this site . |
| 16 | The first thing you would notice about the landscape if you were to travel back in time was how wet it was . |
| 17 | And Dad would talk about the play and say how the writer was n't a patch on Chekhov . |
| 18 | It was a bad idea , her mother would complain about the mud and her father would say nothing . |
| 19 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 20 | I I will talk about the fund as I found it in my capacity as a very recent chairman . |
| 21 | But , what I 'm saying is , if you , salesmen particularly get one , you 'll need one to get round the country your patch , but you need to get familiar with the towns up and down the country for deli , for delivery , cos your customers will talk about the area and you 're talking to someone from a transport café , you have n't got a clue where the towns are . |
| 22 | By completing each section you will learn about the keyboard and all the special keys such as INS and DEL . |
| 23 | By completing each exercise you will learn about the keyboard and all the special keys such as INS and DEL . |
| 24 | If the search is to be successful , the user will learn about the subject and its literature during the searching process . |
| 25 | Let's talk about the Channel that we want and the television we would like to see . |
| 26 | The task is to determine what we can know about the meaning and context of an utterance given only the knowledge that the utterance has occurred … |
| 27 | In our society it has been pointed out that we do not always give due credit to the ladies who provide the refreshments at our meetings , and yet the coffee break is an attractive part of the evenings , the time when we can chat about the talk and other railway topics . |
| 28 | er to raise two matters or comments rather than matters erm seating er , new cushions have now been purchased and were used with great success at the October production and Alan has asked whether there are any comments we can draw about the success or otherwise of the October production and whether the experiment is worth continuing . ? |
| 29 | Set it and you can forget about the meal until the buzzer lets you know it 's ready and to keep all those pots and pans there 's even a large storage compartment which has been specially contoured with smooth rounded corners to make cleaning easier . |
| 30 | The vision can wander about the void but one part of a void is like another and there can be no consciousness of movement until two locations have been defined , either by two dots or by the displacement of one dot , which requires memory of its path . |