Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My advice to readers wanting to know about the status of support groups for '558 is that there is no officially-recognised , or even tolerated , body . |
| 2 | We had three calls last week not it 's , it 's about a month since , wanting to know about the washing machine and we said it 's sold sold er a couple of weeks ago . |
| 3 | ‘ I was in an important business meeting last week and the telephone just kept on ringing and ringing with people wanting to talk about the club , ’ said Mr Corden . |
| 4 | You could see him wanting to talk about the controversy over the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre ( Greycoat versus Speyhawk , or Caring Architects versus Greedy planners ) . |
| 5 | Only the unfeeling Moor was left to succour her and she gritted her teeth as she began to climb a rocky incline , refusing to think about the future . |
| 6 | It is on the way to being as reasonable as refusing to say about the see-saw that one end 's going down is the effect of the other end 's going up . |
| 7 | AN intruder found in the grounds of Princess Diana 's home dashed out of court yesterday refusing to speak about the incident . |
| 8 | I am writing to enquire about the policy of your party towards access to rivers . |
| 9 | Whereas before I used to say let's do this or that and worry if it was n't done , now I 've decided that I 'm really not going to worry about the garden any more . |
| 10 | ’ All the talk is they are going to be very big and physical but we 're not going to worry about the opposition , ’ said Llewellyn . |
| 11 | Continuing our short series on education , today we 're going to talk about the school curriculum . |
| 12 | I would also like to say that er whilst we are going to talk about the housing allocations in the sort of strategic sense , across the county first of all , there are as you will remember er the matters of some disagreements , differences of opinion on demographic issues . |
| 13 | The newsmen thought he was going to talk about the club 's prospects for the new soccer season . |
| 14 | Altho , although if one is eventually going to talk about the report one could to make it clear to the parents that what one is a subject report and the other is a summate report . |
| 15 | I would just going to talk about the television licences . |
| 16 | Dr Martin Knapp , Deputy Director , Personal Social Services Research Unit , University of Kent I am going to talk about the programme of pilot , projects described in " Care in the Community : The First Steps The starting point for that was the 1983 Care in the community circular which referred only to England and built on the Department of Health 's Care in the community consultative document of 1981 . |
| 17 | Ross had , in fact , been quite right — and what she was going to do about the problem , she simply had no idea . |
| 18 | CATHERINE What are you going to do about the money ? |
| 19 | Does n't she owe it to this house and to the people before they vote on Thursday , to give a straight answer to a straight question : what precisely is she going to do about the Poll Tax ? |
| 20 | What are you going to do about the dog ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What are you going to do about the dog ? ’ the swans wanted to know . |
| 22 | Sort out what I 'm going to do about the baby . |
| 23 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 24 | ‘ Have you decided what you 're going to do about the club ? ’ |
| 25 | We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers . |
| 26 | John and Rupert sat down rather stiffly , not quite liking to roam about the room appraising the furniture and objects , as Mervyn was doing . |
| 27 | Phoebe had decided she was going to lie about the amount she drank . |
| 28 | The first-years , after a first term filled with the medieval period and a second with the Renaissance , were now going to learn about the Baroque . |
| 29 | We are now going to think about the space inside a cuboid . |
| 30 | And we 're actually going to think about the evening of Good Friday . |