Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [verb] about " in BNC.
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1 | Moreover , with improved internal-management accounting practices , it is likely that external disclosure practices will also improve , to help combat concerns about the short-term biases of current accounting practices and stock-market pressures . |
2 | ‘ If you ever do want to talk about it , please do come and see me . |
3 | It will be at least five years , Earle estimates , before users creep away from their mainframe dependencies , though recent research it has done shows 10% of major mainframe users do want to talk about downsizing their operations . |
4 | The one thing that I do want to talk about here , however , in some detail because it 's important , is how Freud thinks that this matters to an analysis of modern feelings and attitude to incest . |
5 | I really did want to talk about being in business on your own account as opposed to er working for an employer . |
6 | ‘ I did want to talk about it but I 'm not so sure now . |
7 | ‘ I did want to ask about the photographs for the item on Herbal Remedies , ’ one of the part-time editors said . |
8 | They DID want to know about Yugoslavia . |
9 | They did want to know about Somalia . |
10 | They did want to know about Europe . |
11 | They did want to know about the recession . |
12 | Whilst we 're talking about charges , of course , I do need to talk about the Home Care charge , do n't I ? |
13 | On the other hand , if there is someone in his past who still has a place in his heart , you do need to know about it before you can deal with it . |
14 | Authors do need to know about contexts . |
15 | Hence , we do need to think about how we will deal with the situation if the Government rides roughshod over all informed opinion and ceases to fund the fifth year of full-time education . |
16 | Thus readers are aware that Guide supports fonts ( etc. ) in some way , but can be totally unaware of the concept of logical objects — probably a good thing because evidence from the use of word processors indicates that if they did need to know about logical objects , they would be put off . |
17 | So we do know and we we do remember reading about bi er Romans in the bible at that time . |
18 | I do like to hear about a new garden in the planning . |
19 | But I did have to worry about whether we were going to have the cash flow in ten years ' time to make sure that the parts can be paid for so the chap on the shop floor can stick the thing together . |
20 | And when you do have to grumble about something , they are always asked ‘ is this fair ’ , ‘ did you do this ? ’ and only then do you jump . |
21 | You do have to think about both aspects , and many people who are concerned with one area tend to think less about the other area . |
22 | Now as someone who 's taught at other institutions — I 've taught at the University of Kent and at Middlesex Polytechnic — I think I was aware of the level of harassment which erm was there in those institutions , there certainly was sexual harassment , it certainly was a problem , but I have to say it did n't seem to me to be the problem that the students have identified it as being in Oxford and I think that 's striking and it 's something that erm as tutors and as a university we really do have to think about . |
23 | ‘ I mean , I do try to think about what to do ; I do n't like to fall back on what comes automatically . |
24 | Yeah , but they do get moved about a bit . |
25 | She was well educated ; she had the good memory we all got from her , and she really did get to know about pictures and architecture , more than most dilettantes . |
26 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
27 | Actually , saying that , sorry , we did start talking about the F B I . |
28 | I 'm scared to death half the time that when I do start talking about the woman in my life that I wo n't know where to stop , and … ’ |
29 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
30 | Mr Harvey does want to know about it if she goes into Lexington — that 's our nearest town — but then someone has to drive her there and back , so she 's never without an escort . |