Example sentences of "[verb] about [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guy shot tonight will be forgotten about in another few weeks … |
| 2 | Because the theme of betrayal figures so often in fable , myth and legend throughout all cultures , it seems that it is something we must all know about at one level or another and need to have formalized in story form . |
| 3 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 4 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 5 | Not something I want to talk about at this moment . |
| 6 | Anybody got anything they want to talk about on that ? |
| 7 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 8 | yeah and he 's spotted racism in the Atkinson et al textbook and all sorts of , all over the place so erm mm there should be something interesting to talk about in that for a start . |
| 9 | Perhaps this is , this is something we could we could , we could use to talk about in some revision seminar at the beginning of next term cos we , we , we 've sort of got up to nineteen fifty two erm maybe it would be helpful if , if sort of you know we just sat there over the vacation and then come back and sort of have look |
| 10 | I never thought I would become one of those people William is so fond of writing about in that filthy newspaper of his . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Your mother — that precious Maman you speak about with such reverence — was nothing but a common slut . |
| 12 | A former probation officer , she blames the way professionals are trained to see the criminal as the main concern , with justice for the victim — if thought about at all — regarded as an optional extra . |
| 13 | They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually . |
| 14 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
| 15 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 16 | If it 's talked about at all it 's usually the subject of sarcastic humour . ’ |
| 17 | It merely articulates the principle of identity embodied in the concept of a topic of discourse , and any attempt to prove ( or disprove , for that matter ) the identity of a topic talked about on two separate occasions already presupposes the validity of this principle . |
| 18 | In Sunderland everybody has heard of " the courts " , the place is talked about with that combination of ignorance , fascination and repulsion which people reserve for child-molesting , torture and exotic oppression somewhere else . |
| 19 | Digital networks , in the form of ISDN ( integrated services digital network ) have been talked about for many years , and in mainly technical terms . |
| 20 | This twenty-five-day trial was probably the most talked about for many years . |
| 21 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 22 | It had all been talked about by those involved . |
| 23 | This ancient puzzle has prompted some philosophers to draw a distinction between " being " and actual existence , and to claim that what is being talked about in such cases has being , even though it does not exist in reality . |
| 24 | For a closer analysis shows that what is really being talked about in such propositions is not men or dragons , but the concept man and the concept dragon , and what is being said is that certain things fall under the former concept , whereas the latter concept is empty . |
| 25 | I kept myself to myself , which was a way to get yourself talked about in such an open community where everybody 's business was regarded as common knowledge . |
| 26 | Gable is honest enough to acknowledge that there 's some truth in the saying that no publicity is bad publicity : ‘ The cynical and worldly part of me tells me it 's been wonderful because the production must be the most talked about in 20 years of dance . |
| 27 | At this stage we were unsure how to deal with the social category of sex ( the way gender was talked about in those days ) . |
| 28 | And erm there 's a lot they 've they 've they 've done some television work on him and anyway er in nineteen O three , he came over in the you know about in nineteen hundred with his family and I 've got a picture of them in that 's where he came from in . |
| 29 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 30 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |