Example sentences of "about it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall we talk about it over that cup of tea ? ’ |
| 2 | There 's nowt attractive about it at this time of year , ’ he remonstrated . |
| 3 | There is nothing that USL can do about it at this point , it says . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't do anything about it at this stage . |
| 5 | Should the current tide turn , we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence . |
| 6 | No questions , no but you 've obviously covered everything , you talk about it with such enthusiasm . |
| 7 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 8 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 9 | She lay thinking about it for some time , then decided she had nothing to lose . |
| 10 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 12 | ( You do n't have to think about it for another fortnight . ) |
| 13 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 14 | Everyone is affected by the policies chosen to avert that threat , and nearly everyone is anxious and concerned about it to some degree . |
| 15 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 16 | We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ . |
| 17 | The School Government Regulations even allow the governors to decide that any matter ‘ by reason of its nature ’ should be treated as confidential and so exclude papers and minutes about it from public scrutiny . |
| 18 | I learned about it from another culture , from social workers and counsellors . |
| 19 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 20 | First they happen in June that 's that 's a good starter for one , and they 're really not that big a problem and I guess people in London would just laugh at the prospect of the noise which which May Balls cause and not worry about it in one way and would not have telephone calls to the local council and lots of stories in my newspaper every year . |
| 21 | So we did n't go about it in that way . |
| 22 | ‘ She was very philosophical and happy about it in that way . |
| 23 | and Tim Kennedy said they were off , though ; maybe they 'll have something to say about it in due course . |
| 24 | The second type of individual headhunter was the practical , down-to-earth type with more management experience at different levels than the blue-bloods , who identified the existence of a demand for skills in senior recruiting but who was not pretentious or elitist about it in any way . |
| 25 | well I 'm sorry but from where I 'm looking at it sixty two but not that I 've thought about it in any depth but |
| 26 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 27 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose there are other girls who have had the same experience as me , and that my talking about it in this book might help them feel less isolated . |
| 29 | We 've just talked about it in this room . |
| 30 | There 's a chance of winning a knitting machine and ribber so read all about it in this month 's Duomatic Update . |