Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her . |
| 2 | What does the environment you work in say about the company and its attitude towards employees ? |
| 3 | They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms . |
| 4 | Several joined in to complain about the tribute required by the deputy in Riba . |
| 5 | We went on to talk about the articles in Time and Tide that had so provoked Rebecca West , and Father D'Arcy observed how , in dealing with ‘ difficult ’ correspondents , it was important to strike the right note in replying . |
| 6 | Barnes went on to talk about the valuation of the estate , applying for probate and the possibility of Inheritance Tax . |
| 7 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 8 | ( Saint Teresa goes on to talk about the ill-effects of reading for amusement — specifically reading books of chivalry — but that does not invalidate this demonstration of the role of reading and play in childhood . ) |
| 9 | She went on to talk about the shop , giving Myra no time to say anything else about Roman . |
| 10 | Then over to see about the feed stores . |
| 11 | We treated each other within our little group humanely and normally , and passed over thinking about the others . |
| 12 | White cell 007 nods : ‘ You ca n't help hearing it , the way he keeps on mooching about the house , hating everything and everyone . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course , the reports and test results we issue are not all welcomed by manufacturers but there really is only a tiny percentage who end up carping about the magazine . ’ |
| 14 | Erm thank you Mr Mayor , erm I 'm taking up to speak about the community arts . |
| 15 | Observing his target through cold eyes , Mortimer strode ahead , pistol ready , marking the positions of the dark figures who could be made out scrambling about the building . |
| 16 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 17 | ‘ And it keeps getting bigger and bigger , and so we keep coming back to complain about the size of the hotels and the lousy service , and STOP PUTTING CUCUMBER AND BUTTER ON MY F***ING SANDWICHES ! |
| 18 | ‘ Tell her , if she comes back bothering about the hay , she can turn it herself . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , I just want to keep on learning about the game ’ . |
| 20 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 21 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 22 | With IBM UK Ltd now outsourcing that sort of ancillary operation , it is a little surprising that the company bid for the contract to run the UK government 's Citizen 's Charter national help-line , a phone service intended to provide advice on how to go about complaining about the performance of 1,400 government services — but it did bid , and it has won the contract . |
| 23 | Charles was about to ask about the subterfuge of the full petrol tank , but decided that Detective-Sergeant McWhirter might not be in possession of all the relevant facts for that deduction . |
| 24 | Occasionally the police drop by to complain about the noise , but they do so only after midnight , and they fail to notice the incessant smell of dope , sharp as burning leaves . |
| 25 | Ellie was just about to explain about the letters . ’ |
| 26 | Despite what the EAT in the Sen case go on to say about the Riley decision , it is submitted that it was an established rule of law as a result of that and other decisions that where an applicant instructs solicitors or advisors to act on his/her behalf and through their default the claim is presented out of time , the tribunal would not have exercised their discretion to allow the claim in . |
| 27 | He was silent after this , but Belinda went on thinking about the subject for some minutes more . |
| 28 | The alternative is for Greeks to watch their economic hopes fade , and listen to the world go on chuckling about the story of the Golden Unfleeced . |