Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to worry about the thin but penetrating drizzle that greeted him when he finally emerged from the subway . |
| 2 | There was nothing shabby or worn about the close-fitting blue coat or the buckskin breeches ; and the starched neckcloth — no longer as neat as it might have been — and the ruffles to his shirt-sleeves were of the finest linen . |
| 3 | We s talked to Cath a minute or go about the full training record system . |
| 4 | Although recognizing the dangers of verbalizing about art , Greger is adamant that ‘ … without analysis , without thinking or talking about the many interrelated meanings of an art form , the process of coming-to-know , or of ‘ growing up ’ to a work is probably not possible' ( ibid ) . |
| 5 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 6 | Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World . |
| 7 | Unlike the single line delta with its articulating leading edges that pivot about the cross-spar joint , the second generation stunters with cross-spars fore and aft introduced the rigid frame.As the spine retained the sail on the neutral datum centreline , the sail pattern was made larger than the actual frame plan in order to obtain the conical camber which is the characteristic of the Rogallo design . |
| 8 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 9 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 10 | Little is known about the religious beliefs of the earlier natives , and the sparse information that survives about the Saxon traditions comes from the hardly objective pens of monastic writers . |
| 11 | Another early name that appears about the same time as Robert Usher is John Ie Baker . |
| 12 | It was not mam , oh , it was her features and her wispy greying hair that fell about the thin face , but her mother no longer inhabited the thin frame , the light had been extinguished and all that was left was a shell . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish our church leaders would deal with the problem of young , male violence in the inner cities rather than talk about the Social Chapter , ’ he said . |
| 14 | That sing about the golden tree . |
| 15 | I hope that Opposition Members do not believe that Conservative Members neither understand nor care about the personal circumstances of those who , tragically , have lost their jobs . |
| 16 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 17 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 18 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 19 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 20 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 21 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 22 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 23 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 24 | Just work on this and forget about the restrictive diet side of the equation . |
| 25 | I thought I could read Wordsworth and forget about the damned queue . " |
| 26 | Too much specialisation is bad for systems development ; it feeds the temptation to get engrossed in technical difficulties and forget about the underlying business needs . |
| 27 | " But I have no wish to bring dishonour on you or your family , and am quite prepared to hand him back to you and forget about the whole matter — on one condition. ; |
| 28 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 29 | A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues . |
| 30 | Erm , can I imagine erm two abstracted intellects , each of them doing geometrical proofs and say about the two of them is they go through the group of er the infinity of prime numbers , each of them is working that through . |