Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … and anything you want to know about Shell |
| 2 | ‘ You want to know about Jeopardy ? |
| 3 | Sample this crucial guide to everything you want to know about sex with these questions from SHE readers who were n't afraid to ask . |
| 4 | Ms Devonald said : ‘ The competition will help the young people to say what they want to know about smoking , which will help them and other classes in the school to be better informed about smoking . ’ |
| 5 | He says it may be worth up to nine thousand pounds , and it 's also valuable to historians who want to know about Iron Age society . |
| 6 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but if you really want to know about team orders there is only man to ask Frank ( Williams ) , ’ was Hill 's reply . |
| 8 | ‘ You just want to talk about music and fucking and dope and that 's all . |
| 9 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 10 | Okay , alright , I want to move on now quarter past four now , I want to talk about assertiveness . |
| 11 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 12 | The range and nature of that choice maybe related to the concept of power and I want to talk about power at a future lecture . |
| 13 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to talk about socialism , ’ said one . |
| 15 | If I want to hear about politics , I 'll go out and vote . |
| 16 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 17 | There is one additional point we want to make about research which has to do with its collective and temporal character . |
| 18 | We tend to talk about unemployment in terms of purely economic factors ; |
| 19 | Thus , what people seem to know about grammar is not always reflected in the language they use . |
| 20 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 21 | When you get older ( she was not yet fifty ) you begin to think about death . |
| 22 | By listening to and making Music with their voices or instruments they begin to learn about rhythm and the importance of listening . |
| 23 | Well as long as you continue to talk about particulate depositions , when you mean smuts on Mrs Brown 's last clean white shirt , nobody 's going to understand a great deal of what you 're talking about . |
| 24 | There is an 88050 RISC chip already on the drawing board from Motorola Inc , say sources close to the company , who also continue to talk about convergence with the IBM Power family which Motorola are also collaborating on . |
| 25 | The problem facing writers like Schon who attempt to theorize about practice is that if they fail , practice remains particularistic or intuitive , and if they succeed , they simply generate more theory . |
| 26 | Confronted with a bronze picture , we can locate its image on the relevant computer screen and , having read its precise history , proceed to learn about tableware in general , the social system of Pompeii , and even the precise recipes of the time . |
| 27 | Instead , I return to the living-room and try to think about art . |
| 28 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 29 | We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ? |
| 30 | Thus defendants who fail to think about consent because , e.g . |