Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 2 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 3 | However , with three exceptions , there was little evidence that disabled people and their organisations were properly consulted about the kind of service which they wanted . |
| 4 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 5 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 6 | He was most understanding about the needs of our party . |
| 7 | There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps . |
| 8 | The Northern Regional Strategy Team had commented on the relatively small rate of owner-occupation and planners had long whinged about the impact of the shortage of ‘ executive housing ’ on industrial development . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain . |
| 10 | He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern . |
| 11 | ‘ There I only cared about the money and all the other teachers were the same . |
| 12 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 13 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 14 | Ronni had entirely forgotten about the red geranium that Guido had slipped behind her ear . |
| 15 | It helps one bid rationally , and more coherently , for congenial responsibilities , and therefore to feel more powerful and less resigned about the way these are distributed . |
| 16 | We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff . |
| 17 | Yeah well that 's what I was gon na say , so forget about the other blue ones they can have that . |
| 18 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 19 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 20 | Only to talk about the contract and the copy . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly they have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful for preparing the report , believe the report to be more descriptive and judgmental and think that their schools were less threatened about the review process . |
| 22 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 23 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
| 24 | We did not only speak about the service , but also about other aspects of ecumenism concerning our local community . |
| 25 | Despite occasional misgivings , however , he was optimistic enough to speculate about the form which the next Labour Government might take … |
| 26 | There has been much written about the central character in the programme and Johnny Speight 's intentions in creating a ‘ foul-mouthed bigot ’ such as Garnett . |
| 27 | so bothered about the diary as as actually trying to get |
| 28 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
| 29 | Then , while going through a divorce , I literally forgot about the fish ; the filter broke down and his tank became polluted as well as becoming overgrown with algae . |
| 30 | Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side . |