Example sentences of "about it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 3 | to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it . |
| 4 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 5 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 7 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 8 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 9 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 10 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 11 | I thought no more about it till the following week . |
| 12 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 13 | Cos there was something about it in the Best magazine was n't there ? |
| 14 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 15 | The explanation is to do with the influence on one another of the communicating classes — the people who practise politics , write about it in the higher journalism , and put it on the screen . |
| 16 | And yet the process for fixing expenditure allocations seems to be as much of a shambles as ever it was when you and Mr Heath were so concerned about it in the late 1960s . |
| 17 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 18 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 19 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 20 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 21 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 22 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 23 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 24 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 25 | There was very little about it in the national press . |
| 26 | Eventually she had found out about it in the worst possible way . |
| 27 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 28 | I 'll tell you more about it in the next chapter . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 30 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |