Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read about the poor devil , that those buggers trumped up an espionage charge against him and he 's years to serve in Russia . |
| 2 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 4 | I know about the strange stains she found |
| 5 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 6 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 8 | ‘ Now you know how I feel about the high school , ’ said Carrie . |
| 9 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 10 | Yes , I agree about the full backs . |
| 11 | In another school , which is er , locally managed , we are I think about the only school in the county who have decided to employ our own caretaker and our own cleaners , and , and in fact the latitude that gives us , has really allowed us to do a lot more in that school , erm with the staff and the staff are happier . |
| 12 | I think about the only nicknames that my mates have got |
| 13 | I think about the half-drafted minute lying on my own desk , on a lower floor in the front of this same building , about the arrangements for Sunningdale . |
| 14 | Specifically I dream about the old man 's parchment hands with their cheroot fingers , endlessly rolling the container in his hand , this movement polishing and burnishing it , an insistent but unexplained movement of the sort that happens in dreams . |
| 15 | While I appreciate the point you make about the long standing nature of your request I must advise you that there are many similar locations throughout the Region where there is inadequate space to provide a bus shelter . |
| 16 | If you find that you worry about the imagined outcome of the bout and fear the worst or if you have a racing pulse , then I would say you are over-aroused and in danger of throwing everything away . |
| 17 | You see , in spite of all you read About the nasty banks , We ‘ re mostly very nice indeed But seldom get the thanks . |
| 18 | Say what you like about the first-past-the-post system , but it does let you know who has actually won each seat . |
| 19 | Tell me what you know about the Medieval Circle . ’ |
| 20 | You have forgotten everything you know about the Inspiral Carpets . |
| 21 | I would have done it differently — OK , you know about the blind garden . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose you know about the little hut ? ’ |
| 23 | You talk about the classless society and then his next step is to make Dennis Thatcher a Baronet , that , if I may say , is a media non-sequitur if ever I if ever I heard it . |
| 24 | You talk about the inevitable ; as I see it , the inevitable is that you will have to move your mainly large-animal practice out into a more rural area , say , ten or twelve miles away . |
| 25 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 26 | Well I think I must take issue with you when you talk about the old days . |
| 27 | However you feel about the useless violence of these eruptions , it was the riotous protests of 1981 which created the space in which political antiracism became an option . |
| 28 | On the other hand the ideas that are associated with him such as this fascist idea of engineering a super race O K are distinctly , you know sort of Nazi ideas are n't they and if you think about the political erm context in which this play was written . |
| 29 | Write in and let us know what you think about the new law changes — we will be looking at them in greater detail in next month 's issue . |
| 30 | So if you 're talking about somebody 's , I mean why was behaviourism for exa , if you think about the major topic areas that we 've done , there 's a historical sequence to them . |