Example sentences of "[verb] about [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting , staking and feeding have been talked and written about so frequently that it really is astounding how many questions and problems still occur about these subjects . |
| 2 | th that I 've thought about very seriously but , but Terry , think about this . |
| 3 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
| 4 | Rest of the cast fought him off but the tenor got cut about quite badly and had to go to hospital . |
| 5 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 6 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 7 | You want your body to get about as easily as possible and be able to do the things that your mind seizes on that you want to , to have a go at and to make a reasonable job of it . |
| 8 | If the master panics , the materials dash about more frenziedly and wrap the lead round themselves , tightly encircling their master too . |
| 9 | What natural selection does seem to care about as far as sex is concerned is that there is constant re-combination and this is a question of sexual that we 'll touch on later . |
| 10 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology described the ozone losses shown by these measurements as " not very much less that in the Antarctic spring " although " the effects were less dramatic because the polar ozone was being resupplied about as fast as it was being destroyed " . |
| 11 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 12 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |