Example sentences of "[to-vb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 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 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 6 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 7 | Then over to see about the feed stores . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going upstairs to see about the children . ’ |
| 11 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
| 12 | I have extraordinary things to report about the child . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | That 'll give you time to arrange about the animals ? ’ |
| 15 | We used to feud about the oil-leaks which would drain down the side of the.little courtyard and get under and into my flower-pots . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 18 | I want my colleagues to continue to enthuse about the job and teach effectively . |
| 19 | Pushing himself with indolent grace away from the door , Rourke came into the room and began to rummage about the shelves beneath the counter . |
| 20 | He sat me down and as the camera whirred , I was encouraged to ramble about the past . |
| 21 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | So long as an account 's written down somewhere , no one 's going to fuss about the details . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But erm towards about the sixth year , we used to plant about the average of fourteen , thirteen , fourteen , sixteen thousand , aye aye . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Specialists know all there is to know about the Type 48-x , and can use it better than everyone else , and everyone benefits from their advice . |