Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or to worry about the thin but penetrating drizzle that greeted him when he finally emerged from the subway . |
| 2 | ( a ) in what it selects from or assumes about an historical problem . |
| 3 | There was nothing shabby or worn about the close-fitting blue coat or the buckskin breeches ; and the starched neckcloth — no longer as neat as it might have been — and the ruffles to his shirt-sleeves were of the finest linen . |
| 4 | We s talked to Cath a minute or go about the full training record system . |
| 5 | It is important to notice that the distinction between these two kinds of language ( the artificially constructed and the communicating ) is often more a question of the way we use or think about a particular stretch of language , than the way it is in itself . |
| 6 | Although recognizing the dangers of verbalizing about art , Greger is adamant that ‘ … without analysis , without thinking or talking about the many interrelated meanings of an art form , the process of coming-to-know , or of ‘ growing up ’ to a work is probably not possible' ( ibid ) . |
| 7 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 8 | Their power rests on the continuing ability of the old world to refuse to think , see or care about the Third World . |
| 9 | I hope that Opposition Members do not believe that Conservative Members neither understand nor care about the personal circumstances of those who , tragically , have lost their jobs . |
| 10 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 11 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 12 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 13 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 14 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 15 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 16 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |
| 17 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 18 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 19 | Just work on this and forget about the restrictive diet side of the equation . |
| 20 | I thought I could read Wordsworth and forget about the damned queue . " |
| 21 | Too much specialisation is bad for systems development ; it feeds the temptation to get engrossed in technical difficulties and forget about the underlying business needs . |
| 22 | " But I have no wish to bring dishonour on you or your family , and am quite prepared to hand him back to you and forget about the whole matter — on one condition. ; |
| 23 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 24 | A lifelong Conservative who has always been politically active , and who has fought this seat in the last two local elections , Margaret lives in Headington Ward , and understands , and cares about the local issues . |
| 25 | Erm , can I imagine erm two abstracted intellects , each of them doing geometrical proofs and say about the two of them is they go through the group of er the infinity of prime numbers , each of them is working that through . |
| 26 | Mrs Manners would cook a large early dinner and they would sit and chat about the coming year . |
| 27 | In sum , one could list certain properties of housework tasks , their context , or the housewife 's approach to them , which make recurrent appearances in answers given to the section of the interview dealing with what is liked and disliked about the six core housework tasks . |
| 28 | There seem to have been two main spurs to this research and writing : fascination about the intellectual origins of American republicanism and worry about the civic health of the nation especially after the trauma of the Vietnam war . |
| 29 | Er public opinion did n't welcome the overthrow of of the Shah , it was immediately horrified and everyone gathered together to er try and bring about a re- establishment of the Shah . |
| 30 | There was , I thought , something shoddy , pathetic and defeated about an opened jar of jam . |