Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 2 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 4 | Do you think people who are digging all these bits up are going to know everything about all the things they 've dug up ? |
| 5 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
| 6 | To build up a character you need to know something about that character , what sort of person that character is or what sort of animal that character is . |
| 7 | If you have tried other diets , it might help to know something about some of the most recent and popular ones . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure there 's no need to worry yourself about that , missus . ’ |
| 9 | You want to know anything about that boat , you ask Nick , not me . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't even drink he 's the sort of guy who 'd want to know anything about this . |
| 11 | What used to annoy me about that shop was that , that the fact that you know people used to buy the things on the never- never |
| 12 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 14 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 15 | And I thought , well , I 'm gon na have to do summat about this ! |
| 16 | ‘ All right , I wo n't , but I hope Zelah has n't got it into her head that I 'm to do something about all this nonsense . ’ |
| 17 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 18 | Because the disaster revealed something about the basic nature of the Soviet system , at a moment when it had at last become possible to do something about that system , the political consequences may prove the most profound of all . |
| 19 | She smiled blankly when he confided darkly that he 'd have to do something about that . |
| 20 | Has he learned how to do something about that ? |
| 21 | We decided it was time to do something about that , so we took him along to the vet . |
| 22 | To ask them to do something about that mess . " |
| 23 | We 'll need to do something about that . |
| 24 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman will ask his constituents to remember that if they want to do something about that matter there is one answer — to buy the best food that there is , and that is British produced . |
| 25 | At the end of the day , the only way to do something about that is to put more men on the streets . |
| 26 | ‘ You know , you really ought to do something about that razor you 've been using ! ’ |
| 27 | But we 're trying to do something about that . |
| 28 | ‘ The goalscoring situation is uppermost in our minds and we may have to do something about that . |
| 29 | Erm so presumably you perhaps need to do something about that . |
| 30 | But if we wish to do something about these close and secretive ties between the executive , the military and industry , we need to know what the driving force of this development is . |