Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] about the " in BNC.
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1 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
2 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
3 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |
4 | That is the only nice thing that I propose to say about the hon. Gentleman . |
5 | I want to talk about the use of computers in actual research , and the features of that use which derive from the special characteristics of the humanities . |
6 | That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly . |
7 | It 's almost like I want to write about the people who are in our songs , rather than what happens to them . ’ |
8 | I want to write about the nightmare that we all have to confront every morning when we awake . |
9 | I mean , for me personally I think there 's actually a decision that if I ca n't get over the full unbiased impression that I want to make about the whole story , I 've got to make a decision whether I 'm going to talk to you at all . |
10 | I want to know about the nearest sports centre and the types of sport which go on there . |
11 | But it 's not exactly danger that I seem to feel about the place . |
12 | But , late in the evening , he enquired without ceremony ‘ What am I going to do about the direct-grant schools ? ’ |
13 | What am I going to do about the ears ? |
14 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
15 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
16 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
17 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
18 | Answering the question ‘ why read romances ? ’ by picking the statement , ‘ Because I like to read about the strong , virile heroes ’ , is likely to be interpreted as the reader 's view of masculinity , rather than a comment on the textual function of the male hero in the romance . |
19 | I was very pleased ; I loved to hear about the people and places that she saw . |
20 | Thanks to Geoff 's example , as a social worker specialising in alcohol problems I started to learn about the interaction between alcohol and depression . |
21 | I started to worry about the curfew . |
22 | On wet days at Great Casterton we took it in turns to lecture , and on one of them I offered to talk about the Fosse Way as a Roman military frontier , a subject which had intrigued me from my work at Lincoln . |
23 | It mattered not that after weeks of interviews with 35 Palestinian families in Lebanon , I chose to write about the experiences only of those who had no immediate connection with the Palestinian guerrilla movement . |
24 | Sometimes I try to think about the concepts behind the immersion and about being spiritually cleansed , and sometimes mikva is just something that has to be done on time , and the spiritual significance is almost forgotten in the ritual of the act . |
25 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
26 | ‘ Am I allowed to ask about the pills ? ’ |
27 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
28 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
29 | That 's all , that 's only how I come to know about the treacle tins . ’ |
30 | I WRITE to complain about the way the council allows lorries to drive over pedestrianised roads in the city centre . |