Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't come to argue about politics , but about a nuisance … ’ just the slightest hesitation and a hint of a stammer . |
| 2 | The probation officers ' view has added to concern about lawyers and police and the system they serve . |
| 3 | Women were empowered to speak about sex , challenging the authority of the experts and drawing attention to their gendered power relations . |
| 4 | Everything you never needed to know about life in the trouser department |
| 5 | It conceded that future teachers needed to know about children 's language development along with their general development . |
| 6 | at least I know I have n't got to worry about divorce |
| 7 | It 's a pity her two husbands left her so well off that she has n't had to worry about money . |
| 8 | ‘ People who hang on to their land and property even if it kills them , so we 've never had to worry about money and that 's why we 're such nice people . ’ |
| 9 | Women are , however , very often left with the responsibility because , in the same way that they have had to worry about contraception over the years , men often do n't see it as an issue for them , or are reluctant and afraid to discuss it . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to understand about Guido and Silvia . |
| 11 | We 've got to decide about Monday night . |
| 12 | I mean the time for you being adventurous was earlier , and I mean when you retire you 've got to think about capital er protection as well . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Ayrshire Tory MP is well known for his un-compromising attitude on a variety of topics — nows our chance to find out what he 's got to say about child-care provision and your chance to tackle him on the governments record to date . |
| 15 | Or maybe what have women got to say about football ? |
| 16 | There 's only one thing more I 've got to say about John , he 's the worst , he 's renowned for being the worst in the country , but he , er , got a bit of encouragement from John Mills and Chris Ackland and he 's now doing , so that 's a good achievement . |
| 17 | He ran long fingers through his straight dark hair while exclaiming impatiently , ‘ It 's a pity you could n't have thought to ask about days off . |
| 18 | Peter had begun to study it on Sunday , chiefly to discover what he had had to say about Abbotsfield . |
| 19 | What about , what she has had to say about John Major ? |
| 20 | One of the problems of opposing what deconstruction has had to say about language is that , according to deconstructionists like Miller and de Man , to do so is to oppose language itself . |
| 21 | By way of exploring this neglected area members of the YPLL panel group were invited to talk about problems experienced with friends . |
| 22 | People can relatively easily be stimulated to talk about things in a particular way . |
| 23 | Stephen never much cared to think about sex . |
| 24 | Meetings called to complain about Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses and marches organized to oppose student loans , for example , have both occasioned violent encounters with the police . |
| 25 | Sober citizens have been known to read about Mother Teresa , or other such charismatic figures , and be seized by the need to promote the well-being of the Calcutta poor above all else . |
| 26 | What giant sexual organ escapes in Woody Allen 's film Everything You 've Always Wanted To Know About Sex ? |
| 27 | Everything you 've always wanted to know about Radio 1 but have n't had the chance to ask . |
| 28 | And exactly what had I wanted to know about mazes and knot gardens ? |
| 29 | This would however have involved a fairly cumbersome organisation , with regional committees and large numbers of volunteers trained to talk about money management to schoolchildren . |
| 30 | Information on autumn movements is very scant , but they are believed to start about September . |