Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 2 | and that obviously affects the kinds of problems they have with regard to income , benefits , debt problems erm and with regards the kind of things they come in to see us about , things like single payments f for things . |
| 3 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 4 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better do something about supper . ’ |
| 6 | Better do something about it , had n't we ? " |
| 7 | I 'd better do something about improving it . |
| 8 | ‘ Now you better do something about it , and fast . |
| 9 | " Yes , we 'd better do something about that . " |
| 10 | You better do something about his hook , bend it round else |
| 11 | Or did you now recognize something you need n't of got but now somebody else has bought you that you better do something about it ? |
| 12 | Cobalt said wryly : ‘ Yes , and he only told me about it because I paid him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 14 | Her mother had ideas about her going to university , but Sandy knew her limitations ; she planned on a two-year course at a catering college , and had diplomatically said nothing about it yet . |
| 15 | For these not only reveal something about the nature of criminal law and hence crime itself , but also how corporations are able to channel some of their resources into a concerted attempt to prevent their socially injurious behaviours from being criminalized . |
| 16 | The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room . |
| 17 | So tell them about the new-look BROWNIE . |
| 18 | ‘ So tell me about the twins , ’ I said , not because I was interested , but because I wanted the senator to talk while I dreamed up a strategy to turn down his request . |
| 19 | So tell me about when you first moved in , Mr is n't it ? |
| 20 | ‘ So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine . |
| 21 | ‘ So tell me about this case of yours . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll write him stating , ‘ Since you obviously know nothing about English literature , we expect you never to quote from it again' . ’ |
| 23 | Since you are still technically my wife , I obviously know everything about you . ’ |
| 24 | Clearly , those businesses that foresee the critical changes that will affect plans , and are flexible enough to do something about them , will have a far better chance of being successful than those who can not or will not . |
| 25 | He 'd hear the engine starting , of course , but , by the time he 'd got himself together enough to do anything about it , she should at least have a head start . |
| 26 | They only tell you about that bit . |
| 27 | And my husband , although I 'm only very small and under five foot , my husband is thirteen stone and six foot two inches , so moving him about has been a great problem . |
| 28 | The feeble nature of the weak force and the short interaction distance together imply something about the nature of the particle exchange : it must be relatively heavy . |
| 29 | Erm , you know it 's saying that motherhood is a good thing , but let's not exert ourselves too greatly to do anything about it . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ This would force Langbaurgh Council and Northumbrian Water to get together to do something about the terrible sewage problems there . ’ |