Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern .
2 Ronni had entirely forgotten about the red geranium that Guido had slipped behind her ear .
3 We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff .
4 Yeah well that 's what I was gon na say , so forget about the other blue ones they can have that .
5 ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier .
6 There has been much written about the central character in the programme and Johnny Speight 's intentions in creating a ‘ foul-mouthed bigot ’ such as Garnett .
7 I 've only got to bloody si , I 've only got about the same .
8 That anti-social part of my brain suddenly thought about the greasy eggs and bacon again and my stomach geysered .
9 The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong .
10 There was something so moving about the whole experience .
11 As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place .
12 It is conceivable that the modest groundmass variations ( A–D ) derived by and , on the scale of a thin section , reflect uncertainties inherent in their technique , in which case a ‘ trend ’ would represent only scatter about an average composition .
13 She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away .
14 Some countries that are very much exercised about the alien danger actually have very little immigration .
15 She is interested in the primitive and the raw , both culturally and emotionally , but is endlessly discriminating about the tenacious way in which cultural forms , from cookery to high literature and music , establish themselves and persist .
16 He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side .
17 I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days .
18 Their relatively humdrum job these days is merely to argue about the best mechanism for finding out what the people want , the best way of looking after the country 's interests abroad and , in economics , the rival merits of maximising productive efficiency and maximising compassion for the poor devils who get least out of the efficiency .
19 In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged .
20 Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism .
21 She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board .
22 And to hear members opposite talking about the dead hand of bureaucracy and all these Tebbitite notions that oh Europe , y'know , I mean , y'know , we 're going all the way back to ancient history here .
23 I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference .
24 It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning .
25 I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade .
26 Ruth constantly complained about the fidgeting child next to her .
27 Nothing is quite so telling about the peripheral position of foreigners in Japan as the sorry fate of these Westerners .
28 But does n't talk , he does only talk about the economic
29 Having heard of her relationship with John , the Girls looked at her in fascination , and could only talk about the wonderful clothes this woman wore .
30 If the lounge reflects the proprietor 's domestic preferences , one can only speculate about the Georgian town house style hotel whose lounge boasts two public telephones with wall mounted perspex hoods , a cigarette machine and , on one occasion , dead arrangements of pinks and carnations on each coffee table .
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