Example sentences of "[v-ing] about it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 2 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 3 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 4 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 5 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 6 | So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers . |
| 7 | They 'll be reading about it in the paper then , trying to find out , spreading the word , and you know every every time someone drove past the picket line , there was a bit of bad publicity for the quarries and helpful for us . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 9 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 10 | We were talking about it on the way back . |
| 11 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 12 | And very quickly talking about it amongst the staff and er the other committees it would seem that it ought to have a far broader remit than just on the racing side so the first thing that I 'd like to emphasise is that this year of youth sailing is involves all the outgoing grass roots divisions of the R Y A , that is windsurfing , racing , training and the development divisions and the regions and the clubs and the recognized teaching establishments , so it really is an all encompassing er er scheme . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 14 | Yes , because actually thinking about it across the board , those energetic women in soaps have been married off or calmed down . |
| 15 | The thing is , the thing is , the thing is I can see where everyone 's coming from , but it 's , it 's thinking about it in the future , |
| 16 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |