Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drinkwise 1993 is designed to provide the public with information about alcohol to help them make informed choices about drinking . |
| 2 | While recognising that recent trends in health education are encouraging a move away from a purely topics-based programme , pupils need to have access to reliable information on a wide range of aspects of health to help them make informed judgements about healthy practices . |
| 3 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 4 | Can I make some comment about the meeting because something arise from that meeting which was in er important information for me , namely that the diocese are anticipating that will remain to look after , I gather . |
| 5 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 6 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 7 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |
| 8 | I mean that idea about comfortable uncomfortable |
| 9 | By ‘ relevant conditions ’ I mean those conditions about which an issue arises in this case . |
| 10 | Even before I decide to take the job , I develop naive expectations about what it will be like . |
| 11 | I make certain assumptions about the lyric poem , however : The lyric poem , then , is a particular kind of universe of discourse . |
| 12 | I make feeble excuses about having to write a column . |
| 13 | ‘ Even when we were at the top , I got critical letters about things such as team selection and tactics . ’ |
| 14 | I hate this thing about you know you 're making a tt er er you 're setting an example for the rest of the school , you know . |
| 15 | Because I found historical films about men on horseback so moving I was pleased when my then wife , Jenni , set to writing a book about the wild west . |
| 16 | I told comic stories about them to Richard 's Oxford friends — my own had drifted away and I did n't mind , seeing them through Richard 's eyes as too solemn , too dull , always discussing the balance of payments — and felt no twinge of guilt . |
| 17 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 18 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 19 | When I was in prison I learnt many things about cheques and cards . |
| 20 | That the style they replaced it with is specifically a feminist style is suggested by the comments made to me when I interviewed feminist women about how they thought feminists talked . |
| 21 | I 've said to you before , it 's the one I receive most letters about , er , I know that it 's drawn extremely finely at this present minute . |
| 22 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 23 | For one thing , you 're not the only one who 'll be affected if I give that story about the poison pen letter to the press . |
| 24 | While I appreciate public concern about misuse , I do not see how additional controls on sales could offer an easy or practical solution . |
| 25 | Luke said sourly , ‘ I hear nice things about ‘ The Old Botanical Gardens ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Crew all a bit over-excited at the moment — if I hear another joke about ‘ I was going Caracas back there ’ I think I 'll strangle someone . |
| 27 | and now I know another song about Donald Duck Donald Duck went up the hill stuck in the miney mo , down in the rain and was for , Donald Duck |
| 28 | I get useful information about the unit from |
| 29 | I remember two things about that rally . |
| 30 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |