Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they about " in BNC.
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| 1 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 2 | Finally , residential workers have an important part to play not only in standing by young people , but also in communicating with them about their experiences and in helping them to explain and discover meaning in their lives . |
| 3 | An extremely ‘ permissive ’ parent , on the other hand , attempts to behave in a non-punitive , accepting and affirmative manner towards children 's impulses , desires and actions ; always to consult with them about policy decisions and give explanations for family rules ; to make few demands for household responsibility and orderly behaviour ; to present himself/herself to them as someone to call upon for help and company as they wish , rather than as an active ‘ disciplinary agent ’ responsible for shaping or altering behaviour . |
| 4 | It is important for you to talk with them about AIDS , to explain the important facts and to answer any questions they may have . |
| 5 | It is important that the children should be able to play freely in this way , and again although it might be appropriate to talk with them about the materials beforehand or afterwards , if a model has been completed , a great deal can be learnt simply by observation . |
| 6 | So from my point of view it 's very important to have contact with head teachers and to talk with them about these things , and to create a situation in which they can talk to each other . |
| 7 | Mr Burns said he did not speak to them about their past life because he felt that would have been ‘ insensitive ’ . |
| 8 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 9 | I had already written to them about you , in guarded terms , and their lack of response to my enthusiasms in the way of friends never discouraged me . |
| 10 | ‘ So you would , for instance , have lunch with people in government departments to talk to them about particular policies . ’ |
| 11 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 12 | If this is the case , an incentive to improved health might be for the counsellor to talk to them about ways and means of increasing their social contacts and involvement when they get better . |
| 13 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |
| 14 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 15 | You 've just got to talk to them about J S P , which is a subject very close to my heart . |
| 16 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 17 | Well , as a chemist perhaps you 'll forgive me for dwelling largely on what we as chemists do , but of course it 's not only the chemists in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences who do things for schools — it 's right across the area — but each year , for example , we have a week set aside for sixth form visits , in which parties of sixth formers come to the School and we 're about to talk to them about university entrance , about what goes on in universities , but , most importantly , to show them some of the apparatus which they do n't have at school but which they 've probably heard about . |
| 18 | For example , they have reanalysed studies of mother-child bonding and maternal deprivation ; have criticized conclusions drawn from them about good mother-child relations ; and have extended investigations of these relations to take into account , not just maternal exclusivity and sensitivity , but children 's relationships with other adults and children , and the physical , psychological and social quality of care . |
| 19 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |
| 20 | He and Blanche also knew that Jim Lancaster had lied to them about when he stumbled across his wife 's adultery . |
| 21 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 22 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 23 | talk with them about their feelings on drugs and solvents |
| 24 | I never confided in them about anything except school or college . |
| 25 | You 'll not hear from them about the confusion methods used to present figures on profits or unemployment . |
| 26 | What were you saying to them about |
| 27 | I talked to them about adult things : the Duke of Wellington , and the important things that he was doing in London . |
| 28 | ‘ I talked to them about you , ’ he said slowly . |
| 29 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 30 | How do people make sense of the variety of ideas coming to them about food ? |