Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern . |
| 2 | Ronni had entirely forgotten about the red geranium that Guido had slipped behind her ear . |
| 3 | We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff . |
| 4 | Yeah well that 's what I was gon na say , so forget about the other blue ones they can have that . |
| 5 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 6 | He 's the chief executive of the one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country , he 's coming in to talk about the thirty something phenomena here in the nineties now . |
| 7 | There has been much written about the central character in the programme and Johnny Speight 's intentions in creating a ‘ foul-mouthed bigot ’ such as Garnett . |
| 8 | I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same . |
| 9 | That anti-social part of my brain suddenly thought about the greasy eggs and bacon again and my stomach geysered . |
| 10 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
| 11 | There was something so moving about the whole experience . |
| 12 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 13 | Some countries that are very much exercised about the alien danger actually have very little immigration . |
| 14 | She is interested in the primitive and the raw , both culturally and emotionally , but is endlessly discriminating about the tenacious way in which cultural forms , from cookery to high literature and music , establish themselves and persist . |
| 15 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 16 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 17 | Their relatively humdrum job these days is merely to argue about the best mechanism for finding out what the people want , the best way of looking after the country 's interests abroad and , in economics , the rival merits of maximising productive efficiency and maximising compassion for the poor devils who get least out of the efficiency . |
| 18 | In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged . |
| 19 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 20 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 21 | And to hear members opposite talking about the dead hand of bureaucracy and all these Tebbitite notions that oh Europe , y'know , I mean , y'know , we 're going all the way back to ancient history here . |
| 22 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 23 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 24 | Ruth constantly complained about the fidgeting child next to her . |
| 25 | Nothing is quite so telling about the peripheral position of foreigners in Japan as the sorry fate of these Westerners . |
| 26 | But does n't talk , he does only talk about the economic |
| 27 | Having heard of her relationship with John , the Girls looked at her in fascination , and could only talk about the wonderful clothes this woman wore . |
| 28 | If the lounge reflects the proprietor 's domestic preferences , one can only speculate about the Georgian town house style hotel whose lounge boasts two public telephones with wall mounted perspex hoods , a cigarette machine and , on one occasion , dead arrangements of pinks and carnations on each coffee table . |
| 29 | In the meantime they could only speculate about the revealed cosmos . |
| 30 | They also provide much useful information about performance generally , enabling managers to be better informed about the relative strengths and weaknesses of their operations . |