Example sentences of "[det] [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 2 | He had this to say about weathering . |
| 3 | What does this say about efficiency ? |
| 4 | Coupled with this factual thesis is the full-blooded relativist view that there are only these different views ; that to talk about morality is to make reference to them ; and that there is no fact-of-the-matter ; no independent concept of right and wrong ; of good and bad ; of duty or responsibility . |
| 5 | There was much fussing about religion . |
| 6 | Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up ! |
| 7 | There 'd be so much to learn about fabric , about draping … |
| 8 | He had nothing much to say about poetry . |
| 9 | Thompson has much to say about law . |
| 10 | Neither Leland nor Camden has much to say about industry in England ; and there was nothing that could be specifically called an industrial landscape . |
| 11 | To suppose , as Levi-Strauss and others have done , that rules about exogamy " those we may not marry " and rules about incest — " those with whom we may not have sexual intercourse " — directly match up , so that one kind of rule can serve as an explanation for the other , is an ethnographic mistake . |
| 12 | With the component values specified , around switch S1 , these rates are approximately 8 , 12 and 20 pulses per second and these seem about right for the game as the author has played it . |
| 13 | Much of what the latter says about information theory , feedback and signal detection is old hat , but he generously leaves us one or two bones to pick . |
| 14 | So in effect there are kind of like negative motivating factors which is basically all to do about escape where you do n't care where you go as long as you get away from here . |
| 15 | By which I do n't mean great fuckers ; we all know about power as an aphrodisiac ( an auto-aphrodisiac too ) . |
| 16 | I think we all talked about flexibility and you know that 's what it 's all about really . |
| 17 | Their neighbours are all on the dole and they all talk about food : " I 'll say to them you ca n't be starving on Wednesday because it 's not Friday — giro day , " says their next-door neighbour . |
| 18 | ‘ Why are we all talking about medicine ? ’ asked Meryl . |
| 19 | They all spoke about conduct , morality , ethics . |
| 20 | I shall have more to say about occlusion a little later , but for now : grasping the fact of occlusion in the sense of grasping the fact that if something were removed then something behind it would be perceived because the something behind was there all along is an achievement of the central systems . |
| 21 | Erm and , but at the same time she is the one that always has , seems to have more to say about staffing problems |
| 22 | This resulted in ‘ Aladdin ’ and I knew I did n't have much more to say about rock and roll . |
| 23 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
| 24 | That same chapter has more to say about ritual of atonement , and chapter 18 is concerned with the identity and privileges of those who will carry out such ritual , and who will enable the people to dwell with the holiness of God without being destroyed by it . |
| 25 | Sample results can be portrayed as the outcome of laboratory analysis with all that that implies about accuracy , validity , and reliability , an impression doubtless enhanced by the use of computer print-out and the provision of results to one or more decimal places ( cf. |
| 26 | THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province . |
| 27 | The literature on bereavement , even that of Parkes ( 1986 ) , which focuses on widows , has little to say about bereavement amongst very old people . |
| 28 | Eco has little to say about meaning but is aware of some of the problems of pursuing it : |
| 29 | I think it would skip to environment being the prerogative of local authorities , there will be a great variation across the country , and I do n't think anybody seriously would expect that to happen about health and safety at work , and I think the same should be true of the environment . |
| 30 | That sounded about right . |