Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's got ta think about that |
| 2 | But she 's getting cross now cos I said to her look you 've got ta think about this seriously . |
| 3 | You 've just got ta think about these things Kimmy have n't we ? |
| 4 | There are some points worth noticing about this scheme . |
| 5 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 6 | After reading about this incident in my book the headteacher involved wrote to me saying he felt that teachers do perhaps shout too much but that the issue for him was that the student was a ‘ guest ’ in the school which in turn was a family . |
| 7 | After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’ |
| 8 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |
| 9 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 10 | around the country , then you know , did sort of think about that , I suppose Communicado can |
| 11 | do you want a little bit of done about each person |
| 12 | Instead of worrying about that , the fashionable thing to worry about was how people were going to adapt to all the leisure which the automated future would provide . |
| 13 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 14 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 15 | One way of going about this is to invite people at a staff meeting or training day to : |
| 16 | Surely he was n't accusing her of lying about this , too ? |
| 17 | so , anyway , she must of thought about this , so she called on Monday , and she said oh I 've been thinking Michael 'll need electric for the drill |
| 18 | Just sort of talk about that . |
| 19 | and everybody will have an opportunity of learning about that kingdom |
| 20 | We went through a process of learning about each other 's business ’ . |
| 21 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
| 22 | We might achieve the second task by altering our account of defeasibility so that instead of talking about some one other truth ( which caused the problem of piecemeal addition ) we talk about all truths whatever . |
| 23 | However , when I got to Liverpool on Thursday and saw the state of the ground , instead of thinking about such horses as Laura 's Beau , Rubika and Cool Ground as the major chances , suddenly it was the good-ground types such as Docklands Express who re-entered calculations . |
| 24 | It helps if you can bring yourself to take a very positive line of thinking about each problem as it comes along , being as practical and objective as possible , for sometimes the limitations of home life with an old and possibly infirm parent may seem to close round you like a prison . |
| 25 | Of course we have the additional complication that the over- large government bureaucracy 's at present run by a political party which seems to have given up thinking about anything much other than staying in power and I know and hope that you will be part of thinking about much more than that , but still even with a large union , you could regulate concentrate on stimulating the grass roots and then on building upwards . |
| 26 | But questions about autonomy , and related questions about self and identity have also been important to feminism , and within feminist thinking it is possible to find radically different ways of thinking about these things . |
| 27 | One abstract way of thinking about this is to think of a pragmatic theory as a " black box " ( an as yet unexplicated mechanism ) , and to ask : what should be the input to such a theory , and what should be the output ( or : what is the theory meant to predict , given what particular information ) ? |
| 28 | I assure hon. Members that we readily acknowledge the strength of feeling about that aspect of Sunday trading and will take it fully into account when we draw up proposals for the reform of the law . |
| 29 | There are two points worth noting about this fragment of conversational discourse . |
| 30 | We were frequently fortunate to find some very good tutors in the other languages , but four points are worth noting about this : |