Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proceeded to Cawsand and reported , ‘ Here was the scene of much confusion in the late war , when the French fleet was daily seen to float about this bay meditating destruction to the docks at Plymouth ’ . |
| 2 | Even if we could escape from Ambon with our cargo and wallets intact , none of us much cared to think about what receptions might lie ahead , as we approached the isolation of New Guinea . |
| 3 | Stephen never much cared to think about sex . |
| 4 | I daresay we have all tried to forget about it , but I do n't suppose any of us has succeeded — except Willy . |
| 5 | ‘ But you 've not come to hear about what 's going on today . |
| 6 | But we were not moved to write about them , possibly because they were so very much themselves , any personal comment of ours might seem an intrusion . |
| 7 | That he had not had to think about paying a bill or buying food for God knows how long . |
| 8 | When Anne had tentatively broached the subject of where Kathleen was to go when she left hospital , she said , ‘ Doctor Boland says I 've not got to worry about that . |
| 9 | if you draw that much to it , you 'll be entitled to wipe your bit off , not got to worry about it . |
| 10 | But if anyone was n't pulling his weight , Herbert Chapman soon got to know about it . ’ |
| 11 | One is that scepticism is not restricted to doubt about the possibility of knowledge ; most interesting sceptical arguments , as I suggest in chapter 1 , involve an equal doubt about the possibility of justified belief . |
| 12 | Just wanted to learn about running a practice . ’ |
| 13 | My two predecessors had both met this unmeetable man ; and not wanted to talk about it . |
| 14 | ‘ But they 're not meant to think about the past , you know , and life before Entering , they really start from when they became Brides of Christ . |
| 15 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 16 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 17 | She 's not allowed to talk about it . |
| 18 | We are not allowed to write about that in our newspapers , either . " |
| 19 | All I knew then was that they were not allowed to hear about Jesus . |
| 20 | Outrageous , this is wicked , it 's monstrous , but I 'm absolutely appalled , now I 'm not allowed to speak about her because that 's going to be harmful to her , but any Tom , Dick , or Harry can get information which they have no right to about her and about me , about anybody else , and can flog it . |
| 21 | At IBM , sales staff were not allowed to meet developers — they were not allowed to learn about products in development . |
| 22 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 23 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm probably not fitted to speak about this . ’ |
| 25 | She collects samples , takes measurements and no doubt makes the tea : she is not expected to analyse the data she collects , and certainly not required to think about the questions those data might answer . |
| 26 | So , on Silver and Knitmaster machines , set the cam lever on tuck and side levers back ; on Brother machines , put both tuck buttons in and the Change knob on KC , and on the Toyota 901 and 950 , set the selection lever or dial to the central tuck position and card levers on C. The other Toyota machines have two methods of knitting tuck , but as I have only have the 901 and 950 I 'm not qualified to write about the 858 or 787 . |
| 27 | Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living . |
| 28 | So it 's , if you 're in , you 've still got to think about security and you ought to be locking your doors , if you can . |
| 29 | All you ever needed to know about twentieth-century art theory |
| 30 | He remembered their last jealous scene , all those years ago , in Paris , some time after her return from Poland , a journey she had always refused to talk about . |