Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
| 2 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 3 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 4 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 5 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 6 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 7 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 8 | Th that was the , the hard part , there was nothing they could do about it at all . |
| 9 | There is nothing that USL can do about it at this point , it says . |
| 10 | Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all . |
| 11 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 12 | have you thought about it at all ? |
| 13 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
| 14 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 15 | Rothermere , indeed , hardly cared about it at all . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you wonder about him at all ? |
| 17 | ‘ I just do n't hear about it at all from the sales force , ’ he said , adding that he 's heard it referred to by some as Windows for Warehouses — ‘ because it sits on shelves . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 19 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 20 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 21 | I had n't much more time to think about him at that moment , because a large black car swept past the open windows with Laura at the wheel . |
| 22 | But mostly I try not to think about him at all . |
| 23 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 24 | On the other hand , I did n't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant , asinine pretentiousness . |
| 25 | In fact I refuse to think about it at all . ’ |
| 26 | If they think about it at all , they think of a mythical golden age when children at school were naturally obedient , and , if not , were forced to learn and to remember what they were told . |
| 27 | It seemed to Schmidt that even though the recollections made her sad , talking about them at all was the beginning of a means to recovery . |
| 28 | Irene Pitt had her lunch with Christopher , saw that he was deeply preoccupied with his election chances , not thinking about her at all , and wondered if she was going to enjoy being married to a politician . |
| 29 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 30 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |