Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lord , erm those are , those are my submissions my Lord , I was going to say something about my learned friends somewhat unusual request to your Lordship to make disparaging comments in judgment about the defendants case , my learned friend wishes to make disparaging comments we save a proper place for those in his submissions when he comes to apply to strike out , or say anything about that , erm , my Lord erm perhaps erm as a , as a final point , erm Mr Bernard after having reviewed a piano recital once wrote , the only thing he enjoyed more than this directive performance was having his teeth pulled , I think your Lordship has not found that the last five and a half days are equally an under defended experience in relation to , to this mornings sir activity |
| 2 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 3 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 4 | ’ The thing that bothers me about English training is that although acting is as demanding as ballet or opera , dancers and singers work out every day . |
| 5 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 6 | ACTIVITY 3 5–10 mins Note down the points that strike you about this delivery system , the good as well as the bad . |
| 7 | Yes , erm I think that puts us about half way now . |
| 8 | What would you say about the fact , the thing that struck me about that , ‘ Councillor Grubb today made first call to the helpline , he said , ‘ a free service ’ which , to me , sounded as though what he actually said down the phone to the helpline was |
| 9 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 10 | The first thing that strikes you about Arabian Fight is the stunning graphics . |
| 11 | The first thing that strikes you about this program is Top Level 's evident desire to make it as friendly as possible . |
| 12 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 13 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |
| 14 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 15 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 16 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 17 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 18 | Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations . |
| 19 | The scientific age , with its new chemical and metallurgical industries , produced more pollution and spread it about more than any previous epoch . |
| 20 | ‘ See if she 's put the fire out and done anything about that Martello tower holiday . ’ |
| 21 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 22 | I mean do n't be frightened to come back and see us about that |
| 23 | Well he sai he did say he was gon na come and see you about this money . |
| 24 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 25 | display quite appalling ignorance of other parts of the subject — it does n't seem to matter too much to the arts faculty or the historians , that you concentrate on something here and know nothing about important things elsewhere . |
| 26 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to infiltrate the skinheads and tell them about black people . |
| 28 | He had told her , so that today he could be free — free to go to Charity and tell her about this astonishing feeling inside of him . |
| 29 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 30 | I had been far away at the time , and knew nothing about any murder . |