Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] about [art] " in BNC.

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1 As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is :
2 Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job .
3 Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car .
4 Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies .
5 ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’
6 They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head .
7 The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 .
8 Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music .
9 The Director seemed to know nothing about the College .
10 The BD8 Form is sent to the Social Services Department and a social worker will then visit the family to inform them about the services and allowances that may be available to them .
11 The SS will advertise our willingness to inform ourselves about the needs of industry .
12 Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ .
13 We want to know everything about the Dove Trust and its officers .
14 You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business .
15 They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims .
16 I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox .
17 However , it is possible to discover something about the relationship between clause structure and the processing of written language by using a subject-paced reading task .
18 I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ?
19 Secondly is evidence from sediments and materials , and the material comprising the river terrace could be used to infer something about the mode of deposition and the physical environment at the time .
20 A parents ' evening in late September or early October gives time for the class to settle and for the teacher to get to know something about the child .
21 He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed .
22 The counsellor 's task is not just to understand only one facet of the counsellee 's life , but to know something about the totality .
23 However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual .
24 In another presidential address , this time to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues , Stotland ( 1977 ) spoke on the topic of ‘ white-collar criminals ’ and argued that although we were beginning to know something about the people who commit white-collar and corporate crime , we ought to intensify our efforts .
25 ‘ Captain Maestrangelo , ’ he said , filling his pipe rapidly and efficiently , ‘ needs to know something about the family , everything about the family , in fact , and quickly . ’
26 It 's good to know something about the man .
27 To understand Theory Z , it will be helpful to know something about the characteristics of large Japanese firms .
28 What I would like is to know something about the job I came here to do .
29 In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism .
30 As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting .
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