Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all we want to know about that sort of thing and anyway it is not my job . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'm not sayin' I believe it , mind , but I want to know about that happy-birthday message . |
| 3 | And as for the guns that are supposed to be missing from Taigh na Tuir , I can tell you all you want to know about that . |
| 4 | I want to know about that . ’ |
| 5 | thank you , well you know the three categories , now what about erm , er , I 'm very anxious to proceed today as far as we can , what about Mr er remind me erm reading with two and three er I 'm afraid I 've forgotten exactly what you , oh I know you wanted to know Mr , er before cross examine Mr you want to know about all the additions of the various brochures , is that right ? |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think I want to know about this , ’ said Melanie , trying in vain to shake off Carol 's arm . |
| 7 | Can your client live without an income , they 've just convinced you that they ca n't , they now want to know about this Health Master . |
| 8 | And if there are any teachers that want to know about this , they could get details by contacting you , Peter Simpson , at the university ? |
| 9 | ‘ I want to know about any girls reported missing since yesterday . |
| 10 | ‘ I WANT TO TALK ABOUT black comedy on TV — I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 11 | I now want to talk about two or three of the mechanisms and techniques we hope to be able to use in implementing changes when things are n't necessarily to your liking . |
| 12 | I want to talk about Offensive from Quasar 13 . ’ |
| 13 | I know you all want to talk about that Unesco thing , ’ she added in a slightly threatening tone . |
| 14 | okay , I ju as I say i do n't want to promise you something that that I know I 'm not going to be able to achieve in these two days because that 's not yep certainly if you want to talk about that you know as a separate thing outside the time then then we 'll be able to help you do that , okay ? |
| 15 | So I want to talk about medical practices er |
| 16 | Please do contact me if you want to talk about any of these points . |
| 17 | Mostly about the film — and they want to talk about another book . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know if I want to talk about this on a Saturday lunchtime I tell you Dan I mean it really is it 's erm What are you doing ? |
| 19 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 20 | What does the Prime Minister propose to do about that ? |
| 21 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 22 | People want to read about real struggles in the sort of books written by people like Joanna Trollope and Mary Wesley . ’ |
| 23 | Exactly how the skeletal Ms Melt feels about this offer is unclear . |
| 24 | Okay any other points that people want to raise about this ? |
| 25 | Is there anything you want to say about that , Katherine at this stage ? |
| 26 | Have you got anything , any comments you want to say about this ? |
| 27 | " When you 've finished saying all that you want to say about these things , though , do you feel that you 've come to any definite conclusion ? " |
| 28 | Yes , we need to agree this , unpalatable as it is , to go forwards to P and R , to expose what the five percent reduction is , and to indicate as well to P and R other points that we , we want to say about these specific services . |
| 29 | One of the many caveats I want to make about these still-experimental calculations is that they are not typical at all socio-economic levels . |
| 30 | Besides , there are a few other people I want to tell about this . |