Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 2 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
| 3 | Here are some pointers on how to go about the writing task : 1 . |
| 4 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 5 | No , I think she 's gone to see about a divorce . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't honestly know , he said er , he 's got to go in for his test , he said , and then I 'll have to see about a car so I do n't know whether they 're gon na buy him one or not |
| 7 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 8 | Then over to see about the feed stores . |
| 9 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 10 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 11 | I have extraordinary things to report about the child . |
| 12 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 13 | We are looking forward to a visit from prominent physiotherapist Vivian Grisogono , who , with her vast and expert knowledge of treating sports injuries , has much to impart about the way we enthusiastically drive our bodies on to perform at a pace that often proves harmful . |
| 14 | I 'M getting married in less than two months and I want to lose about a stone before then to get in shape for the big day . |
| 15 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 16 | What I would like is for us to be able to poke about a bit ; see if there are any angles in the Livesey case that might lead back to this girl . |
| 17 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 18 | He sat me down and as the camera whirred , I was encouraged to ramble about the past . |
| 19 | In The Future of Socialism — and in a classic revisionist sentence — Anthony Crosland argued that democratic socialists , instead of fussing about ‘ glaring and conspicuous evils , squalor and injustice and distressed areas … have to fuss about the balance of payments , and incentives , and higher productivity ’ . |
| 20 | In the mid-1860s Dostoevsky developed a marked tendency to fuss about the relation between real life and fiction , between the goings-on in the newspapers and what he was saying or wanted to say in his novels . |
| 21 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 22 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 23 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 24 | The Substitute had refused the chair offered to him , choosing instead to wander about the room , taking brief puffs on his cigar and regarding everything and everyone with an amused detachment that gave the impression of his being mildly surprised but pleased at having to perform the office of Public Prosecutor . |
| 25 | Suddenly it seemed to her as if the whole world wanted to know about every detail of her life . |
| 26 | FLORA Thompson enthusiasts might like to know about a reprint of a 56-page guide of Liphook written by her and which is certain to become a collector 's item . |
| 27 | ‘ Because there 's nothing else anyone could possibly want to know about a man three days dead . |
| 28 | They will want to know about a childminder who fails to provide a safe environment or where children appear to be neglected or ill cared for . |
| 29 | In the form of a very brief list of what we want to know about A Level , could you do it ? |
| 30 | But there are basic things that the journalist will want to know about a story that you can work out in advance . |