Example sentences of "they [vb base] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they want to talk about work , Maggie , get us into a union and all that . |
| 2 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 3 | Ms Devonald said : ‘ The competition will help the young people to say what they want to know about smoking , which will help them and other classes in the school to be better informed about smoking . ’ |
| 4 | By listening to and making Music with their voices or instruments they begin to learn about rhythm and the importance of listening . |
| 5 | However , they are not Calvinists when they come to think about politics . |
| 6 | The first requirement in getting students to adopt a serious orientation to knowledge is that they come to care about truth . |
| 7 | Scientists may be more slipshod than they care to admit about replication and falsification ; Broad and Wade do a good job of proving that . |
| 8 | Divide the weights of the fish they tell you about by three but more importantly listen to what they have to say about location . |
| 9 | And while we 're talking about the man 's divine right to know , little babies are born knowing all they need to know about love : they 're unselfconscious , they can communicate , and their first experience — sucking — is a sensual one ! |
| 10 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |