Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | cos it 'll make them think about their language wo n't they ? |
2 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
3 | But working on that film made me think about my life . |
4 | He did n't want me to worry about my health . |
5 | After using it , I asked about its accuracy , as the readings bore no resemblance to that of the chemical test kit . |
6 | I asked about her daughter and her son and husband . |
7 | I asked about her work before she married . |
8 | I asked about her Home for Unmarried Mothers . |
9 | He said , ‘ Well , I asked about your life . |
10 | I asked about his wife . |
11 | See what I mean about her being a real character ! |
12 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
13 | Can I explain about my mother ? ’ |
14 | Can I just point out that something here , erm , was , I think I mentioned about my children it was the height of the table and its just so little that , that they indicate their in height in this picture , but it is there and , erm , that , I found that really very exciting and as I say the , The Threes , it , the three goblets , the three apples the three puppies , so often I 've , I 've found that there is three sets of , three objects and in |
15 | What do I know about their recent performance/trading history ? |
16 | I worry about their future . |
17 | And all of this , in a nutshell , is why I worry about our leaders . |
18 | I worry about my daughter , she 's growing up in a world where things are inevitably going ’ Asked whether he may just possibly have got it all wrong , Hopkins pauses melodramatically . |
19 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
20 | ‘ I worry about your future , Mo . ’ |
21 | And such a sentence need n't be confined to the characters of the Bible ; words like those ought to be part of the way that you and I speak about our lives . |
22 | What can I do about my fat knees ? |
23 | ‘ Because if you force me to leave , what would I do about my wretched EC forms on milk yield with which I 've been wrestling ? |
24 | Was it you I s no it was n't you I seen about my ear , was it ? |
25 | I can vouch for that from the visits I have made to the coast , the conversations I have had with lifeboat people and the reports I receive about your activities . |
26 | I forgot about my nursing . |
27 | I forgot about my rescuers , I was more concerned by the Luciferi . |
28 | I forgot about his wedding day on Saturday you know . |
29 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
30 | ‘ I read about 'er disappearance , o' course nce , ’ she began . |