Example sentences of "about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew all about demanding parents . |
| 2 | Before leaving a cowed Scotland , Edward rode about demanding oaths of submission from all the magnates in the land . |
| 3 | ‘ Who says anythin' about goin' in with Rico ? ’ |
| 4 | She was worried by the way he roamed about touching everything , and during a long chat to Mrs Allinson expressed her concern that he could not get on with anything , and could not write or read . |
| 5 | " When you crept into my room less than a week ago , you were n't so shy about touching me . |
| 6 | What about touching up ? |
| 7 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 8 | and about goes like that |
| 9 | Kept saying something about building a parade of really modern shops . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've now got to see if people like it enough for us to want to even think about building something like it . ’ |
| 11 | How about building a hedgehog house ? |
| 12 | One hears so many discussions in the name of drama from children in role as town councillors arguing about building a swimming baths or an old people 's home . |
| 13 | Now they 're talking about building a bypass around Winchelsea . |
| 14 | Indeed , they even dropped the argument about building ‘ new communities ’ because of the difficulties of making such an ‘ idealistic ’ argument in an atmosphere of conflict . |
| 15 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's about building up a character till you know everything . |
| 17 | An egalitarian mixture of social realism and modernism , the Festival conjured up a real sense of design direction : it was all about building a better environment for everyone , with stylish cars , labour-saving gadgets and buildings that were easier to inhabit . |
| 18 | Actually for radical gays it was much more about the relationship with the Labour movement ; much more about building social identities ; about relating to the need for social change . |
| 19 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 20 | If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | In one sense CBHPs are not about building a grass roots community health movement but more about broadening the popular understanding of the root causes of ill health . |
| 22 | Here the problem for the Labour leadership is even more difficult for there is no constitutional issue about building up a separate organization within the party . |
| 23 | In comparison with the BCG matrix , the McKinsey-GE matrix seems at first to be less explicit about building some ‘ problem children ’ into ‘ stars ’ and identifying ‘ cash cows ’ and ‘ dogs ’ , but the implications are present , as indicated by figure 4.3 . |
| 24 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 25 | That one about building the house ? |
| 26 | The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act . |
| 27 | If what distinguishes software is something non-physical , and software is in some sense irreducibly abstract , then it falls outside the mandate of material culture and a conscientious museum curator might have qualms about mobilising resources to acquire and preserve it . |
| 28 | So , if you 're still lying in the tub , staring at that cracked sink , why not think about transforming your smallest room ? |
| 29 | Have you ever thought about transforming that small , dark room , which harbours all your clutter , into a light and spacious haven ? |
| 30 | This will assist in beginning to think about shaping the market in 1994/95 and beyond . |