Example sentences of "want [to-vb] about your [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smash Hits will want to know about your make-up or your boxer shorts , Melody Maker leans towards aesthetics and primal therapy and the local Argus might just want to know a few biographical details and where your next gig is . |
| 2 | You do n't want to know about your father 's past . |
| 3 | I want to talk about your work , Alistair . |
| 4 | I want to hear about your trip to Gallimaufry . |
| 5 | The ADT London Marathon and charity go hand in hand , so we want to hear about your charity running experiences , whether at London or other events around the country . |
| 6 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 7 | Now , you do n't want to talk about your wife or about yesterday … |
| 8 | So when you showed us you did n't want to hear about your mother , we thought — well , we thought we 'd better go along with you . |