Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 2 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 3 | I think that the hon. Gentleman 's colleague , the hon. Member for Antrim , North ( Rev. Ian Paisley ) came to see me about one of the cases to which he refers . |
| 4 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 6 | We 've heard nothing about this . ’ |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 8 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 9 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 10 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 11 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 12 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , of course , and for pity 's sake stop reminding me about that . |
| 15 | ‘ Say nothing about these papers , Poole , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The Europe Agreements , however , say nothing about free trade in agriculture . |
| 17 | The brief memories written for R. L. Watson in the late 1940s by the poet 's second and third brothers say nothing about this period . |
| 18 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 19 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |
| 20 | Clearly that 's what worries me about this Government 's implementation of the Children Act . |
| 21 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 22 | And that was a , that was a good er I did n't know nothing about that you know until they er gave me . |
| 23 | I do n't know I mean I do n't know nothing about these things , what , really have to feel that we are the lot |
| 24 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 25 | The man who persistently questions you about after-sales service . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I do n't know owt about that sort of thing , but it seems rum to me , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Do you think people who are digging all these bits up are going to know everything about all the things they 've dug up ? |
| 28 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
| 29 | I just heard Fagg shouting , ‘ How dare you , sir ? ’ and the Commander wailing something about old times . |
| 30 | Although she had never allowed herself to consider it a possibility , the thought had crossed her mind that he might know something about that letter . |