Example sentences of "about [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without me going into any other detail what do you think about if you 'll fit in ? |
| 2 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 3 | We ask them to read the policy , we explain bits in the booklet , we ask them to telephone us if there 's anything they 're not happy with or they 're unsure about and we will clarify that , and also we do give them fourteen days in which to cancel , so if if once they 've actually got the policy , if they 're not happy with it , or they 're not happy with the answers that we give , then they 're more than happy we 're more than happy to refund . |
| 4 | You must be clear what you are talking about and you must have marshalled all the necessary facts and information . |
| 5 | They did n't know what she was talking about but they could feel she was frightened . |
| 6 | Now let's take a quick look at some of the other operating features which you need to know about before you can decide on the model of machine which will he best suited to your own particular needs . |
| 7 | We tend to assess people through what they say and the way they say it , to come to conclusions about whether we will like someone from the way they present themselves in words . |
| 8 | I think people are worried about whether we can carry them out efficiently . ’ |
| 9 | We are here to have a committee meeting about the Season , and about your attitude , and indeed about whether we can go on with the Season at all . ’ |
| 10 | The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but |
| 11 | If he really accepts that , somehow or other , the Common Market is a panacea and if the British people have no say about whether we should continue our membership of that club , which does not have the interests of the common people at heart , how can it be justified ? |
| 12 | ‘ Because I 'm doubtful about whether we should go ahead . ’ |
| 13 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |
| 14 | Even when people are very severely disturbed they can express legitimate choices about whether they wish to be alone or in company , occupied or relaxing , about the food they like , about whether they would prefer silence or a music-filled room , and so forth . |
| 15 | He then put it to Mr and Mrs Singh that they would have to think about whether they would like Balbinder to come to the school . |
| 16 | ( k ) Related sale As noted above most clients will be very worried about whether they will end up with two properties or none . |
| 17 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 18 | They were just arguing about whether they should leave . ’ |
| 19 | I often speak to the farmers in my area and they are seriously concerned about whether they can continue . |
| 20 | The student union are taking legal advice about whether they can take any further action to recover the missing money . |
| 21 | About whether he would go to heaven or hell . |
| 22 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 23 | It was Darwin 's fortune that spared him from the drudgery which wore out his contemporaries , and allowed him to do his research without worrying about whether he would have bread and cheese . |
| 24 | After initial doubts about whether he would accept selection to run for Britain in the European Cup in Rome in two weeks ' time , Robb said he would now ‘ probably go if they asked me . ’ |
| 25 | A slight difficulty arose about whether he might type the extracts . |
| 26 | Equally the interviewee forms a model of the interviewer(s) and this can be a considerable aid to his decision-making about whether he can respect , trust , work with or tolerate guidance from the interviewer . |
| 27 | about whether he can get any classroom situations |
| 28 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 29 | As she became more sexually active — to him , frighteningly so — he became seriously disturbed about whether he could keep up with her . |
| 30 | And , and er he wondered about whether he should go up to Klondike or not . |