Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who does n't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say . |
| 2 | Sample this crucial guide to everything you want to know about sex with these questions from SHE readers who were n't afraid to ask . |
| 3 | What do they need to know about homosexuality for ? ’ |
| 4 | However , if you are unable to seek professional help , do read one of the following really excellent books which will tell you everything you will ever need to know about healing through diet : Leslie Kenton 's Biogenic Diet and Celia Wright 's The Wright Diet . |
| 5 | The kids did n't want to know about life outside Battle Creek . |
| 6 | Everything you never needed to know about life in the trouser department |
| 7 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 8 | Someone else wants to know about VAT on thoroughbred horse breeders . |
| 9 | You need to know about side-slipping in the aircraft that you fly . |
| 10 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 11 | There could be several reasons why Tolkien chose to write about fascination with the artefact ( a theme present in his work since chapter 1 of The Hobbit ) . |
| 12 | In which case she does n't have to worry about funding from income , which is what your question was was n't it ? |
| 13 | Although much of the dissent of 1855 and early 1856 was to be found in obscure memoranda written by one bureaucrat for another , manuscripts circulated by hand among the intelligentsia , and a journal which came out in faraway London , the Russian government also had reason to worry about dissent with a high public profile . |
| 14 | Candid recording , for instance , is a troublesome issue for sociolinguists ; but I have received the impression that medical researchers are generally less inclined to worry about audio-recording without the speaker 's knowledge or permission , provided anonymity is maintained . |
| 15 | But at least the couple wo n't have to worry about transport for the moment . |
| 16 | Let me tell you you do not have to worry about continuity of assignment . |
| 17 | And now they would n't have to worry about collision on the way home . |
| 18 | Once there Kate was too busy immersing herself in her work to worry about Ace in the pits . |
| 19 | Women are , however , very often left with the responsibility because , in the same way that they have had to worry about contraception over the years , men often do n't see it as an issue for them , or are reluctant and afraid to discuss it . |
| 20 | Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour . |
| 21 | You simply can not begin to talk about cooperation with other oppressed groups if the European gay movements are themselves badly organised . |
| 22 | Why do we continue to talk about marriage as if it were a commonly understood state when these differences so obviously exist ? |
| 23 | Sometimes they are told to demonstrate what new recruits ( and the field-worker ) can expect ; on other occasions they are told to illustrate the funny or the tragic sides of policing ; or are used as a vehicle for the story-teller to display some features about him or herself , such as his or her experience and skill and ability in handling all things , and that he or she is professional in being able to talk about horror in a cold and detached manner . |
| 24 | As the first part of our special teenage sex survey — carried out by the Research Group of Great Britain Limited — showed yesterday , girls are more willing than boys to talk about sex with their friends . |
| 25 | Pursuing the notion of building sex education into the curriculum , I asked whether they would not be embarrassed to talk about sex with a teacher they saw around all the time . |
| 26 | We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ? |
| 27 | In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable . |
| 28 | It took the military stalemate of 1915 to persuade the UDC that the time was ripe to talk about peace without victory . |
| 29 | I think it is something that we should encourage churches to talk about , the districts to talk about speaking of the district secretary I ! |
| 30 | Was n't it just as neat and unlikely to blame the parents as it was to talk about possession by devils ? |