Example sentences of "about it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 3 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 4 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 5 | I thought no more about it till the following week . |
| 6 | Cos there was something about it in the Best magazine was n't there ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 10 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 11 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 12 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 13 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 14 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 15 | There was very little about it in the national press . |
| 16 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 17 | I 'll tell you more about it in the next chapter . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 19 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |