Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] about [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paging from Vodapage gives busy people like you the freedom to go about your business and get the message . |
| 2 | Again , this has the status of an authentic attempt to learn about our world through looking , and then to find words that come close to getting things true . |
| 3 | The law has a deal to say about what information should be contained on a business letter . |
| 4 | An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months . |
| 5 | The child 's willingness to talk about his family and his home , however , will be much more likely to reflect his own individual circumstance . |
| 6 | I had asked the Englishman , who was tilting his clean-cut face to the sun , if I could use some of his sun cream , seizing the opportunity to talk about my robbery . |
| 7 | Mr Day was not at home to comment about his departure . |
| 8 | On Monday 13 Nov the artist will be in The Gallery to talk about his work . |
| 9 | Hunter 's solicitors , Shepherd and Harris , of Enfield , Middlesex , refused to come to the telephone to talk about their client . |
| 10 | Oh , he 's too wrapped up in his work to bother about his wife . |
| 11 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 12 | There was no need to worry about her lack of knowledge : public relations trained you to write authoritatively about everything from tractors to lingerie . |
| 13 | A phone call to Crowfield for PPR confirmed that Wattisham were closed until 2.00pm local that afternoon , obviating the need to worry about their MATZ . |
| 14 | money , investment are proving sound , there is no need to worry about my expenditure |
| 15 | The boy was a wicked little bastard , but he had the right to know about his mother 's illness . |
| 16 | I am sorry to bother you with my problems , but as my real mother , I feel you have a right to know about your daughter 's situation . |
| 17 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 18 | Chris McGeorge is in the 800 , though , and Northern Ireland 's Mark Kirk defends the 1500 against Tony Morrell , who has a point to prove about his fitness . |
| 19 | The polytechnic plans to build a hostel on the Morrell-Pollock site in North Oxford , and tonight , local residents will have the chance to talk about their proposal at a public meeting . |
| 20 | I 'm a poor person to talk about his work really , because I do n't understand the open air . |
| 21 | The town 's new Mayor , only the second since it gained the town title , spent the day at the fire station to learn about their work . |
| 22 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 23 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 24 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 25 | He meets in a group on D , going 3 times a week to talk about his life , their lives and their offences . |
| 26 | Diane Maidment would be pleased to hear from any former staff members with an amusing , unusual or interesting tale to tell about their stay at the Branch . |
| 27 | The morning after Vitor 's visit to her home , Ashley rang the local authority to enquire about her work licence . |
| 28 | Last week it was my turn to talk about my past ; in order to become conscious of my pain , in order to understand what 's happening now and why . |
| 29 | Nor is the exposure of a hitherto unknown spy by a defector well received because it shows that the counter-intelligence section responsible has not done its job properly and gives those who are controlling the defector the opportunity to boast about their success . |
| 30 | And as if that were not enough , the church bell is also , by ancient repute , therapeutic : place inside it if you can whatever part of your body is troubling you , get the bell ringer to go about his business and you will , with luck , be cured . |