Example sentences of "[vb base] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good .
2 Often softened by nostalgia for what they recall as the security of their ‘ training days ’ , I have heard older nurses enthuse about the cosiness and order of day to day nursing .
3 My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain .
4 He has contemplated suicide , he says ; he feels deep regret about the death .
5 " The one thing we regret about the move is that we ca n't still get HTV .
6 The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions .
7 Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York .
8 Fear about the impact of Ecstasy on health is growing .
9 ‘ You who so often preach about the catholicity of the Anglican Church , and believe it too . ’
10 Surrounded by ‘ government furniture of polished yellow wood ’ , he proffers blandishing diminutives ; Mow about a spot of open window ? ’ ( okoshechko ) he asks the ready fainter .
11 A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee .
12 Doubts remain about the saga of four men who spent 118 days drifting atop their upturned trimaran after it had been flipped by a huge wave before being washed up on an island near Auckland .
13 It is expected to be operational with an office in Brussels early next year and although some doubts remain about the scope of the redefined Scotland Europa , the Council has agreed , in principle , to support the initiative .
14 See , see what I mean about the board , it you know with the
15 Framsden mill and its environs will illustrate what I mean about the compactness and self-sufficiency of the rural villages in East Anglia .
16 ‘ I mean about the principle .
17 ‘ If you mean about the girl in the car , she says there was no girl .
18 A big woman , bigger than her husband , nothing cowed or mean about the way she stood .
19 I mean about the job , that 's why I got fast you see ?
20 Then there is The Delectation Sinistrorse — a girdle of VS standard ( see what I mean about the dictionary ! )
21 If you 've followed the plot so far , you 'll see what I mean about the conglomeration of bits and pieces from different instruments that have been amassed for this guitar .
22 Film of the real thing is an excellent way of challenging misconceptions or assumptions people make about a situation and a good aim for viewing tasks is to make trainees sharper in their perception of what is happening around them .
23 No one fully understands the workings of these interlocking systems and we may forgive ourselves for having a sensation of something slipping through our fingers when we try to grasp them — but one thing is certain : the choices we make about the order of the information in discourse reveal our own assumptions about the world and about the people we are trying to communicate with .
24 Norms develop about the task , i.e. the work the people were hired to do .
25 To complete the idyllic farmyard scene , chickens , a mixture of varieties , strut and scratch about the driveway and the fields .
26 Perhaps he had taken to heart Mrs Thatcher 's quotation from Mark Twain : ‘ Never prophesy about the future . ’
27 In their first scene together , where Fluellen begins with a feeling of respect for Pistol 's bravery at the bridge ( how obtained we know not ) , they dispute about the iconography of the goddess Fortune , Pistol in verse , Fluellen in prose , more coherently ( III.vi.20–60 ) .
28 At this point there is once again dispute about the nature of any agreements .
29 It always looked as if old Wicksy would remain a minor TV figure until his series Heartbeat about a country plod came along .
30 He said we owed you a favour , because of all that fuss and bother about the dog that was chasing sheep .
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