Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also more specialised information sources you might need to use : if you want to know about the readership of a particular contemporary magazine or newspaper , for example ( perhaps as part of a study of the relation between ideology and audience ) you could use BRAD ( " British Rate and Data " ) , which lists advertising rates and audited newspaper and magazine circulations . |
| 2 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
| 3 | They want to talk about the AOL , of course . |
| 4 | If you want to talk about the work of an author , you need to judge how many texts to talk about and how varied your selection needs to be ( many authors write in different modes : novels , short stories , poems , diaries and letters , etc ) . |
| 5 | This is because many children want to talk about the subject but can not find an adult in whom to confide or who is willing to talk about it . |
| 6 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |
| 7 | In the Preface we suggested that , as a minimum level of activity , you go in with ( i ) some ideas about what you hope will happen , emphasizing pupil and teacher activities ( ii ) some questions that you want answered about the unit , and ( iii ) some paper to note what actually does happen in detail , and in general . |
| 8 | Anything else Now , just before we all er disappear , can I just quickly check what we want to do about the departure . |
| 9 | GAMBIAN police have named a man they want to question about the murder of a British conservation worker who was killed in a game reserve in December . |
| 10 | If you want to shout about the leaf stem and the trees then call now . |
| 11 | I , I only want to mention about the swimming pool and swimming for pensioners and there ever such a lot of people go swimming . |
| 12 | They think , they seem to think that we want to think about the election all the time . |
| 13 | What I also want to think about the model , the positive outcomes , remember that . |
| 14 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
| 15 | I would appreciate any comments you want to make about the campaign and Media Action and your final evaluation of the programme . |
| 16 | Stop waddlin' about the lot of yer ! ’ |
| 17 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 18 | ‘ I stop thinking about the problem . |
| 19 | Gonzalez has little cause to complain about the supply of British parts for Exocet and the frigates . |
| 20 | If you have something to say then say it , but stop beating about the bush . ’ |
| 21 | So I wake my feet up , stop fantasizing about the bomb , and invite the East London Line to ferry me up to Whitechapel . |
| 22 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
| 23 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 24 | Dolly 's limbs lay strewn about the carpet but Dolly 's assailant had gone to take a nap and slept . |
| 25 | I remember reading about the haunting of old Edge Lane Hall and years later of that dreadful disaster the Titanic sinking . |
| 26 | Some women who have always had a career only get to think about the need for closer relationships after that finishes . |
| 27 | This is where the couple often sit to chat about the day 's events and plan . |
| 28 | Those of you ( few , I hope ) who answer these questions in the wrong way , the stupid Philistine way , might as well close this book now and go walking about the world pretending to be real . |
| 29 | Well they keep complaining about the refectory food so they come over here and have mutton stew with me from time to time , and they I quite like their company . |
| 30 | A snail should keep to its own shell , that 's what I say — not go crawling about the country creeping into another 's . |