Example sentences of "[vb base] for [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally the initiative comes from local sources , an enquiry or request for information about WEA provision and sometimes a keen local person will take upon himself the responsibility of calling a meeting . |
| 2 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
| 3 | How can I put that , keep me , how can I look after myself as I obviously wo n't be able to work , and look for ways about er , getting my house in order before I er , finally die . |
| 4 | Erm or I mean you know for advice about what they could do about D H S S. |
| 5 | Which is another point , really , that people I find even if they appeal for witnesses about something that 's gone wrong , people are very hesitant , the majority of people in the community are frightened of being witnesses , |
| 6 | Locke 's use of the term ‘ ideas ’ ( ‘ ideas of sickness and pain' ) is a clue as to why the manna → gripings model for talk about the objects of perception appealed to him so much . |
| 7 | These ideas are , or are derived by ‘ abstraction ’ from , the ideas ( = feelings , sensation ) said to be caused in us when we perceive things , on the manna → gripings model for talk about the objects of perception . |
| 8 | All this about Descartes 's doctrine that mind and matter are two causally-related substances , about the manna → gripings model for talk about the objects of perception , and about the empiricist doctrine about how language is meaningful , has been with a view to understanding why Locke could not acknowledge the existence of the epistemic appearances of objects . |
| 9 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 10 | Pause or stop the tape at the end of the shot and ask for suggestions about where it is . |
| 11 | Most people who ask for advice about a decision are really seeking condemnation : that is to say , condemnation of the choice they do not want to make but have not the courage to reject . |
| 12 | The reasons women have for concern about fitness and health are often multiply overdetermined . |
| 13 | For history work it involves pupils instantly in using evidence ( Attainment Target 3 ) as they search for clues about the high street in former times , — looking at building frontages ( especially the part above the shiny modern shopfront ) , hunting for coal-holes , lamp brackets , investigating letter boxes and many other things , measuring the width of the street in different places . |
| 14 | Disabled visitors are very welcome , please ‘ phone for information about limited access . |