Example sentences of "[vb base] about the [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | See , see what I mean about the board , it you know with the |
| 14 | Framsden mill and its environs will illustrate what I mean about the compactness and self-sufficiency of the rural villages in East Anglia . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean about the principle . |
| 16 | ‘ If you mean about the girl in the car , she says there was no girl . |
| 17 | A big woman , bigger than her husband , nothing cowed or mean about the way she stood . |
| 18 | I mean about the job , that 's why I got fast you see ? |
| 19 | Then there is The Delectation Sinistrorse — a girdle of VS standard ( see what I mean about the dictionary ! ) |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Norms develop about the task , i.e. the work the people were hired to do . |
| 23 | To complete the idyllic farmyard scene , chickens , a mixture of varieties , strut and scratch about the driveway and the fields . |
| 24 | Perhaps he had taken to heart Mrs Thatcher 's quotation from Mark Twain : ‘ Never prophesy about the future . ’ |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | At this point there is once again dispute about the nature of any agreements . |
| 27 | He said we owed you a favour , because of all that fuss and bother about the dog that was chasing sheep . |
| 28 | Accusations fly about the relevance of different forms of treatment , the value of colluding with the medical profession , the spectre of ‘ AIDS professionals ’ lining their nests , profiting from the miseries of others . |
| 29 | This section reviews the trends in income and income maintenance while the next section examines what these trends suggest about the position of families headed by Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents . |
| 30 | Secondly , in terms of theory , what does the specific case of accounting regulation suggest about the autonomy of the State , the interests it serves , the relationship between power and knowledge and the nature of professions in society . |