Example sentences of "[to-vb] about these [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you get to know about these things at an early age you lose your shame and shyness .
2 Thucydides does not tell us all we need to know about these encroachments on Peloponnesian League allies , and there are other encroachments which he scarcely mentions at all .
3 ** However , Age Concern Groups should not need to worry about these provisions at all .
4 But there are still two important things to remember about these varieties from 100 years ago .
5 Well , children can be allowed to express their anxieties verbally and to learn perhaps from the adults ' modelling around them that to talk about these things in moderation is perfectly acceptable erm but not to do it to the extent or to allow children to perhaps watch the news coverage to the extent that they become over excited and are not able to contain their own feelings of anxiety about loss and damage and death and separation from parents and significant adults .
6 So there was no need to talk about these sort of things .
7 What are we going to do about these tiles for the step
8 What 're we going to do about these tiles for the step ?
9 And then there 's this big thing about artistic separation ; you 're allowed to sing about these things in a completely gratuitous manner because you 're a singer in a group and you can just stand back from it .
10 Recent surveys have suggested that parents want their children to learn about these things at school , and from quite an early age .
11 Instead we need to reflect on them , ponder and wonder , find out all we can about them , learn to appreciate some of the time-honoured ways of approaching them such as meditation and prayer , and be prepared to think about these matters in all sorts of different situations and moods .
12 It is sufficient to say that I agree with what my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , has to say about these cases in the speech to be delivered by him , and that in my opinion a person who thus procures the company 's consent dishonestly and with the intention of permanently depriving the company of the money is guilty of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 .
13 We shall have more to say about these functions in later chapters , but will meanwhile point out that these functions and the needs they serve are interrelated : success in interpersonal communication depends in part on success in transmitting a message , which in turn depends in part on success in terms of text production .
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