Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job . |
| 2 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 3 | ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’ |
| 4 | The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken . |
| 5 | Till receipts say nothing about a business ’ overheads . |
| 6 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 7 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 8 | At this point , some hawk-eyed philosopher ( hawks have very acute eyes — you could n't make a hawk 's eye by throwing lenses and light-sensitive cells together at random ) will start mumbling something about a circular argument . |
| 9 | I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ? |
| 10 | You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them . |
| 11 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 12 | I grabbed the top of the fence and pulled myself up until I could rest my forearms there , keeping myself about a foot off the ground by skidding the toes of my trainers — only cleaned last week as well — into the wet wood . |
| 13 | But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know . |
| 14 | Roland listened politely and said , ‘ Do you know anything about a Miss LaMotte who wrote children 's stories and religious poetry in the 1850s or thereabouts ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know anything about a stolen book , ’ Connelly bleated . |
| 16 | You could n't know anything about a person who was possessed . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't know anything about a box , Theo ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No , Gilbert , I do n't know anything about a box of Amy 's . |
| 19 | from erm Andy there 's a party and a units party but he does n't know anything about a units party . |
| 20 | Yes , it 's a lot of money to pay — I do n't know anything about an appeal . ’ |
| 21 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 22 | And , in those pages anyway , the book had said nothing about a split . |
| 23 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 24 | It was Mozaffar Alam , the Mughal historian , who told me about a book which became one of my favourite Delhi texts : the Muraqqa'-e-Dehli . |
| 25 | A friend once told me about a Xingu ‘ Indian ’ he met in Brazil who went to Sao Paulo , a gigantic city , for the first time . |
| 26 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 27 | Nobody told me about a bar graph . |
| 28 | A few months later someone in my house told me about an article in Time Out about the Liberation Network . |
| 29 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 30 | But even he could do nothing about a shot from Bishop which flashed past a group of players from the edge of the area but went the wrong side of the post and a header by Martin seconds from time which was cleared off the line . |