Example sentences of "you [verb] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want to talk about disarmament or do you want to help those in the White House and in the Kremlin who are really trying to do something effective about it ? ’ |
| 2 | Do n't you want to say about shit and things like that ? |
| 3 | ‘ Why do you want to know about chinchilla ? |
| 4 | At the question session afterwards , one disgruntled UFO watcher summed up the audience 's feelings : ‘ If you want to talk about psychology , why do n't you bugger off to a psychology conference . |
| 5 | Sample this crucial guide to everything you want to know about sex with these questions from SHE readers who were n't afraid to ask . |
| 6 | … and anything you want to know about Shell |
| 7 | ‘ You want to know about Jeopardy ? |
| 8 | If , for example , you want to know about punctuation in the seventeenth century , marriage laws in nineteenth-century Canada , the history of the Elizabethan stage , or current theories of myth or symbol , this is one place well worth looking . |
| 9 | The simplest inquiry about the Health Service ( ’ What are you going to do about waiting lists ? ’ ) will sound accusatory — even loaded — when put to the Secretary of State for the Department of Health . |
| 10 | " What are you going to do about supper ? " |
| 11 | When you get older ( she was not yet fifty ) you begin to think about death . |
| 12 | Peter , would you like to talk about language register in tabloids and broadsheets ? |
| 13 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 14 | Well as long as you continue to talk about particulate depositions , when you mean smuts on Mrs Brown 's last clean white shirt , nobody 's going to understand a great deal of what you 're talking about . |
| 15 | And when you started to talk about marriage , it all seemed to be happening again . |
| 16 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 17 | But you know if you wanted to talk about sanctification , as a for instance , that 's growing in grace and holiness , becoming more the person that God wants us to be . |
| 18 | He called to Cotterell , ‘ It 's the Royal Veterinary College , that fellow you wanted to ask about horse doping . ’ |
| 19 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 20 | It was just me at home on the blower , learning about all the various bits of it ; I knew about press and radio , but you have to learn about manufacturing and distribution . |
| 21 | Water Gardening from Lotus tells you everything you need to know about building and maintaining your garden pond . |
| 22 | There are only two facts you need to know about exercise : |
| 23 | There must be things you need to know about Sleet . ’ |
| 24 | On the one hand C and M contrive items which encapsulate , within 3 or 4 minutes , all you need to know about subject X . |
| 25 | It is time that your creative talents were developed alongside individuals who are of like mind and outlook , and you could not wish for a better planetary set-up to further your aims and ambitions : the past few years have taught you all you need to know about self-survival . |
| 26 | You need to know about side-slipping in the aircraft that you fly . |
| 27 | Here is all you need to know about salt , peppers , vinegars and oils , together with details of all those other essences and sauces used to enliven food . |
| 28 | Next , before you find yourself in a situation you ca n't control you need to know about contraception and safe sex . |
| 29 | GEAR GUIDE all you need to know about sleeping bags |