Example sentences of "[verb] about the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should not joke about the unseen world , ’ said Leonard . |
| 2 | JON RONSON , who writes about The Secret World of Sex ( page 76 ) , lives in Manchester and specializes in life 's stranger corners . |
| 3 | The symbolic or referential function uses words to talk about the objective world , to point to things , as Richards puts it . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps not , but then I 'm not writing about the ancient world . |
| 5 | But can the same be said about the social world ? |
| 6 | The history of science is the history of what men have thought about the physical world and is an essential part of the history of Western culture . |
| 7 | Os Guinness has talked about the modern world in terms of a divide . |
| 8 | In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen . |
| 9 | The basic claim of the Principle is plausible enough : in constructing a fictional universe we rely on what we know about the actual world unless instructed otherwise . |
| 10 | In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world . |
| 11 | Up to now , femininity has never been equated with financial self-sufficiency , but adult women will need to learn about the complicated world of personal finance and pension provision and exercise their choices so far as possible . |
| 12 | … loved to learn about the natural world … |
| 13 | After the timid The Maggie ( 1953 , High and Dry in US ) , Mackendrick 's Ealing oeuvre culminates in The Ladykillers ( 1955 ) where a gang of bank robbers , masquerading as an unlikely string quartet , engages in a battle of wills with an unutterably sweet and totally irritating landlady , symbol of Ealing 's ( and England 's ) determination not to think about the modern world , smothering the horrors and the nightmares in gentility . |
| 14 | We have , in short , to keep our feet on the ground , to get our facts right , and to remember that we are talking about the real world . |
| 15 | I am talking about the real world — about what is happening out there . |
| 16 | There were close Manchester links , Morrissey and Gedge wrote about the real world ( in very different styles ) and the basic mental line-up was virtually the same . |
| 17 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 18 | He would dream up all kinds of possibilities — like beetles crawling over different shaped surfaces , and someone being shut up in a box in outer space trying to find out whether he was accelerating or being acted upon by gravity — and would then test out these ideas to see if they had anything to say about the real world . |
| 19 | ‘ Unable to find any resting-place for the soles of their feet ’ ; ‘ roaming about the watery world , compasses in hand , and discovering no rest for them ’ ; references to ‘ The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot ’ , Gen. 6 : 4 . |
| 20 | Joseph Dods has begun setting up clubs in County Durham schools to help youngsters learn about the natural world around them . |