Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 2 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 3 | After a year or so of disappointment , my Dad gently explained about air waves , and I reasoned that if Dick Barton could send his voice through the air waves , God certainly could . |
| 4 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 5 | Workers who can be exposed to excessively cold weather conditions have not only to know about survival measures during over-exposure , but be able and willing to carry them out . |
| 6 | At 5 o'clock forget about work and give some in-depth thought to what 's happening at home . |
| 7 | I received a strong impression that it was not enough to know about injustice and suffering ; practical solutions had to be found . |
| 8 | Been in combat long enough to know about fall-back positions in case things go wrong . ’ |
| 9 | Phil Philips , deputy secretary of the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association , said : ‘ People in the industry are much better educated about AIDS than they were in 1987 . ’ |
| 10 | Resistors are like pipes , if you work with a resistance it 's always one over so forget about resistance , deal with conductance . |
| 11 | We must bring costs under control , preserve quality , preserve choice , and reduce the people 's nagging daily worry about health insurance . |
| 12 | Although it only cost about eightpence ha'penny an ounce then . |
| 13 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 14 | So writing about photographer David Bailey in ‘ the Life and Loves of David Bailey ’ , page 56 , was relatively straightforward . |
| 15 | In becoming the first country to shun the Springboks , the Welsh not only turned about face from their decision of five years ago , but also brought the advent of a professional rugby circus in the Republic that bit closer . |
| 16 | Perhaps we 're not so bothered about value for money after all . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's so advanced about Shell Advanced Diesel ? ’ |
| 18 | THE SOUNDTRACK to Oliver Stone 's much talked about film ‘ THE DOORS ’ is released by Elektra on March 18 . |
| 19 | The first of those is delegation , a much talked about subject . |
| 20 | Thanks to the much talked about convergence of broadcasting telecommunications and computing . |
| 21 | erm , I ca n't read it too well cos I 've only had about couple of lessons on it . |
| 22 | As Orton noted , Ken told a lot of stories about people who committed suicide — and constantly talked about death , but in a funny way . |
| 23 | Er there was a worry that well first of all the effect just the the appearance of the road passing through that area , clearly obviously concerns about development but that can be on on any route that can happen . |
| 24 | The media constantly complain about defamation law , with some justice . |
| 25 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 26 | These kids not only knew about rock'n'roll , they could play it . |
| 27 | Well , you 're basically talking about power relationships and that goes into almost every aspect of one 's life and one 's relationship , and I suppose you 're asking men to look at themselves differently too . |
| 28 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 29 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 30 | Anne found John Redmond beside her , gazing intently at her but only talking about dancing . |