Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to talk about literature , and to hear some good readings . |
| 2 | And I was asked about my interests , and naturally I began to talk about politics . |
| 3 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 4 | That solved , by the purchase of a device based on a screw which is perfect for all nuts except Brazils , I began to think about commerce . |
| 5 | As an international loan officer , I learned to forget about security and instead to develop a set of rationales that would make home office feel good about the loan , even though , technically , it was ‘ unsecured ’ . |
| 6 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 7 | Okay that 's all I wanted to say about voltage gated channels then , let's erm turn our attention to so-called ligand gated channels which form rather a discrete class . |
| 8 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Business seemed like an attractive idea and I wanted to learn about finance first , ’ he offers as an explanation . |