Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Hitler , whose life and ideology glorified an untrammelled lust for power , surprises by his docility under discipline as a corporal in the first World War , and the little reported about his sexual tastes suggests that they were masochistic . |
| 2 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
| 3 | I also said that banks were not sufficiently up-front about their charges and made some suggestions for changes , such as displaying a poster in each branch and printing details on statements . |
| 4 | ‘ But I thought you only cared about your art , ’ said Lord Henry . |
| 5 | ‘ I literally found about our endorsement of used motor-oil from someone I was phoning to find out whether the stuff was OK , ’ says the group 's Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time , Dave Bruer . |
| 6 | His sorry tale is one long whinge about his own suffering — his lack of sex , his loneliness , his sleeplessness . |
| 7 | I think you are especially wonderful , the way you are so understanding about my odd career . |
| 8 | It 's amusing anecdote central with the rent-a-gob Cockney git and erstwhile punk rock Hip Young Gunslinger as they fondly reminisce about their halcyon days at The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly with a greenly envious IAN McCANN |
| 9 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 10 | She was so impressed she apparently forgot about her appointment with Mrs Major , who was waiting patiently in the Savoy powder room . |
| 11 | It is Ego that thinks we should constantly fret about our family and the future , in case God decides we are taking life for granted , and hurls down a bolt of lightning . |
| 12 | I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death . |
| 13 | I only know about my approach . |
| 14 | ‘ You obviously know about my sons . |
| 15 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 16 | Spiers was trained in the Gothic school , but Bolton , who knew him well , insists that he never referred to any buildings of his own and little is apparently known about his work as an architect . |
| 17 | I was so angry with him , and so depressed about my future , that I could not eat the breakfast . |
| 18 | They suddenly worried about their jobs , or their mortgages , or their children 's schooling . |
| 19 | I 'd rather bed with the Devil than you , so go about your business and leave me alone . " |
| 20 | It seems that there can be no conspiracy between an employer and his employees , at least where they merely go about their employer 's business . |
| 21 | Behind the grey wire , beyond the uniformed guards with their sub-machine guns and automatic pistols and attack dogs , 5000 people daily go about their work , to research , design , test and finally manufacture an independent source of nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | Parents naturally worried about their children , how they were settling in , how they were behaving with their new families . |
| 23 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 24 | If you find yourself endlessly talking about your illness or your diet , as you may begin to do , make a big effort to occupy your mind with other things . |
| 25 | She saw the utter concentration on his face as he watched his hand move , tracing a line from her frantically beating pulse to the V of her shirt , slipping inside to close about her breast . |
| 26 | African journalists are generally better informed about their position and responsibilities ; some are acutely aware of their dilemma . |
| 27 | Nurses say fewer women would need hospital treatment if they were better informed about their bodies . |
| 28 | Public relations is much maligned about its influence on the media . |
| 29 | For instance , houseflies fixed so that they can only roll about their long axis , orient themselves to keep edges aligned vertically in their frontal visual field . |
| 30 | She got quite enough teasing about her name without letting on about her all-too-appropriate birth-date — and her parents ' hasty marriage was hardly his concern . |