Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] at [det] " 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 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 7 | Th that was the , the hard part , there was nothing they could do about it at all . |
| 8 | There is nothing that USL can do about it at this point , it says . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | have you thought about it at all ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 14 | Rothermere , indeed , hardly cared about it at all . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you wonder about him at all ? |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But mostly I try not to think about him at all . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On the other hand , I did n't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant , asinine pretentiousness . |
| 23 | In fact I refuse to think about it at all . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Obviously neglects them and does not care about them at all . |
| 29 | She did n't really care about him at all , she just wanted his money . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Did Susan talk about him at all ? |