Example sentences of "about [pron] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was worried about you for a while . ’ |
| 3 | Bellybutton , kneeling over his work , thought about it for a second , then spread his hands in a gesture of ignorance . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , I was covering them today and — ’ he thought about it for a second — ‘ twice last week . ’ |
| 5 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 6 | I think about it for a bit . |
| 7 | I think about it for a bit . |
| 8 | I open my eyes and think about it for a bit . |
| 9 | I think about it for a bit , then I ask her if I can afford some sandwiches . |
| 10 | I think about it for a bit , then I get up and go over to the shops . |
| 11 | I think about it for a bit , then I go in . |
| 12 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 13 | So can you choose one of those lines now , think about it for a minute and then have a look on at this . |
| 14 | Think about it for a minute … |
| 15 | The problem is presented to them , and then they think about it for a minute , and then they say anything that comes into their head . |
| 16 | Can you think about it for a minute . |
| 17 | So , I 'll bring my things in and think about it for a minute . |
| 18 | ‘ Rose went to bed , ’ Mona answered without looking up from her books and though the boy thought about it for a while he did not ask anything further . |
| 19 | They thought about it for a while . |
| 20 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 21 | Lydia thought about it for a while , before she spoke . |
| 22 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 23 | It all seemed very simple then — particularly when I could n't do anything about it for a month . |
| 24 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |
| 25 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 26 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 27 | Think about it for a moment . |
| 28 | I think about it for a moment . |
| 29 | Schellenberg brooded about it for a moment . |
| 30 | Why not talk it over with your family and think about it for a week or two ? ’ |