Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must bring costs under control , preserve quality , preserve choice , and reduce the people 's nagging daily worry about health insurance . |
| 2 | But I have already warned you to be on your guard against anything that any anthropologist has ever written about kinship terminologies , so I will not pursue the matter here . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has recently received about manufacturing output . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has recently received about manufacturing output . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has recently received about manufacturing output . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has recently received about manufacturing output . |
| 7 | In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money . |
| 8 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 9 | D'Arcy felt instinctively irritated that the générale seemed more worried about scandal than their client 's predicament . |
| 10 | She 'd never spoken about family either . |
| 11 | I was lying there thinking about fellatio at the time . |
| 12 | The customers reply never mind about lunch , they will drink a carafe of wine and perhaps Madame has some bread and sausage ? |
| 13 | Kassin , Ellsworth and Smith ( 1989 ) found that 70% of a sample of 63 experts felt that this phenomenon is reliable enough for psychologists to present in court-room testimony — the experts in this study generally had a PhD in psychology and over half of them reported having actually testified about eyewitness testimony . |
| 14 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
| 15 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 16 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |
| 17 | I think they did , yeah Because I do n't get much time during the day er to go away from the shop but er I , the only job I mostly do is when the visitors come to the er temple I have to go there explain about Sikhism . |
| 18 | Let us digress slightly to talk about efficiency in agriculture , comparing fairly modern production of wheat , which is a very efficient crop in the USA , with production of wheat from bullock-power in India . |
| 19 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 20 | erm , I ca n't read it too well cos I 've only had about couple of lessons on it . |
| 21 | Mrs Hollidaye had already warned about plum trees growing inside you . |
| 22 | And I , when she 's revising she says oh I 've just done about change and theories of change . |
| 23 | Erm and it 's talking about this er accommodation theory Giles ' accommodation theory which has one main assumption erm that all the things I 've just mentioned about pronunciation and speech rates and things , erm they all occur in in order to encourage more interaction between the two speakers . |
| 24 | In this concert , recorded at the Stars ' Desert Inn , Las Vegas , he does what he does best sings about love . |
| 25 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 26 | What I 've always said about life itself . |
| 27 | If you believed everything you 've ever read about desktop publishing it 's quite possible that you think anyone who can use a computer can turn out professional looking material with consummate ease . |
| 28 | The Ombudsman has instructed societies to make sure customers are kept fully informed about interest rates and , in particular , obsolete accounts . |
| 29 | Although I 'm not actually on the Committee of the Bridgenorth Community Centre , I 'm obviously very closely connected with it , and as we 've previously spoken about Age Concern , it is our hope that another day centre for the elderly will be set up once that community centre is up and running , because there are a great deal of elderly in that particular area . |
| 30 | that we 've actually talked about training needs as part of the |