Example sentences of "about it [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ The Home Secretary is responsible for immigration and has made speeches about it for many months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 11 | She lay thinking about it for some time , then decided she had nothing to lose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 14 | ( You do n't have to think about it for another fortnight . ) |
| 15 | I 've been meaning to write to The Post letter page about it for several years . |
| 16 | That 's about it for this month . |
| 17 | Yeah ! and not only that , not only that , but Dan talks about it to other fans , right . |
| 18 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 19 | They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship . |
| 20 | Everyone is affected by the policies chosen to avert that threat , and nearly everyone is anxious and concerned about it to some degree . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ . |
| 23 | Heaps of sand lie scattered about it like soft pyramids . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I learned about it from another culture , from social workers and counsellors . |
| 26 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 27 | Yeah well I 'll speak to about it by all means but I 'm not quite sure how the hell she 's gon na be able to do it . |
| 28 | Yeah well I 'll speak to about it by all means but I 'm not quite sure how the hell she 's gon na be able to do it . |
| 29 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 30 | In the absence of such empirical work , it is difficult to say much about it in sociological terms . |