Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only to talk about the contract and the copy . |
| 2 | Despite occasional misgivings , however , he was optimistic enough to speculate about the form which the next Labour Government might take … |
| 3 | Now well enough to speak about the accident for the first time , he says it 's amazing he survived . |
| 4 | Chief executive of Tendring District Council , David Mitchell-Gears , is scheduled to appear on Channel 4 News at 7pm to talk about the application . |
| 5 | The erm , we did invite Ingy to come to this meeting just to report about the festival things , but er she , when I saw her , down at the Lyceum , she was sort of doubtful , erm just because you know |
| 6 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 7 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 8 | I hope that the Minister will go away to think about the matter and come back with some guarantees on the points that have been made . |
| 9 | I 'm glad Councillor reminded er Councillor reminded Councillor erm about the introduction of L M S , when over two hundred teachers did appear outside to protest about the introduction of it , along with cuts in budgets . |
| 10 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 11 | TREVOR FRANCIS broke a three-year silence yesterday to talk about the scar left by his controversial sacking by Queens Park Rangers . |
| 12 | TREVOR FRANCIS broke a three-year silence yesterday to talk about the scar left by his controversial sacking at QPR . |
| 13 | Then had come the only question Bess Halidon was ever to ask about the incident . |
| 14 | historical , biographical , rhetorical , mythical , Freudian , jungian , existentialist , Marxist , structuralist , Christian-allegorical , ethical , exponential , linguistic , phenomenological , archetypal , you name it ; so that when each commentary was written there would be simply nothing further to say about the novel in question . |
| 15 | More than 50 listeners jammed the Radio Cleveland switchboard for two and a half hours yesterday to complain about the company . |
| 16 | He must be encouraged also to think about the justification , if any , for separating his subject from , say , physics or biology or biochemistry . |
| 17 | e.g. to generalize about the significance of an event : " The basic weakness of the Treaty ( of Versailles ) lay in the fact that it left the German people in a frame of mind not conducive to a lasting peace . |
| 18 | There are a few people who claim even to know about the lobbying process in Brussels . |
| 19 | Scientists and science educators might do well to worry about the attractiveness of computers and the sense of power they unlock for brilliant young people today . |
| 20 | I 'm here to talk about the rule which applies to appeals procedures for members . |
| 21 | She already had her travelling companion , Swimmer of Lakes , and if she thought of the wild horses in the valley at all it was simply to wonder about the legend of the tamers : to subdue the spirit of the wild animal ; to be permitted to ride upon its back ; yes , magic would have been necessary in early thought , and cult legends certainly would have grown around the hunters who snared the fast , proud creatures . |
| 22 | Small wonder perhaps that many buried their heads in the sand and refused even to think about the event until the last possible moment . |
| 23 | He would need to confess them , be shrived , for even to think about the King 's death was treason . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I 'm here to learn about the situation on the ground beyond things that I 've known from previous trips and a long-term study of the issues . |
| 25 | ‘ You have until tomorrow to think about the proposition . |
| 26 | They were there to learn about the world , the church , the Army , themselves . |
| 27 | It 's not just the girls who were there to learn about the game . |
| 28 | Loppe had had least to say about the incarceration of Nicholas . |
| 29 | It is clearly naive to talk in general terms about ‘ central government control ’ over local authorities , or indeed to generalize about the relationship at all . |
| 30 | The Substitute had refused the chair offered to him , choosing instead to wander about the room , taking brief puffs on his cigar and regarding everything and everyone with an amused detachment that gave the impression of his being mildly surprised but pleased at having to perform the office of Public Prosecutor . |