Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 3 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 4 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 5 | She would think about it-in the morning . |
| 6 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 7 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 8 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 9 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 10 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 11 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 12 | It literally , it literally means produce the body only you ca n't simply , well the difference between a constitutional system and er an arbitrary government is that in arbitrary governments people get arrested and disappear , locked up , throw away the key and worry about it the next generation or after the next er military coup or whatever but in a constitutional government there have to be procedures and one of the safeguards of individual liberty is that if you 're ever arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies you have to be produced before a court within a specified period and charged with something . |
| 13 | And of course , the more you worry about it the more it starts er to come out . |
| 14 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 15 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 16 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 17 | In fact , the more she had thought about it the more convinced she had become . |
| 18 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 19 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 20 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 21 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 22 | And we look forward to seeing some more publicity , between us we have fingers in many pies , and the more we know about it the more chance we have to spread the word around . |
| 23 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 24 | I know , nor do I but the more you talked about it the more she 'll do it . |
| 25 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 26 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 27 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 28 | Most people have experienced directly or through reading about it the business of opinion research . |
| 29 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 30 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |