Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 2 | I need to speak to Governor Nicholson about them as soon as possible , do you understand ? ’ |
| 3 | I had the feeling that Signe had n't dismissed Harvey 's words of caution about me as completely as she professed and I carefully refrained from asking about the parcel . |
| 4 | Three very obvious and things you would forget about him straight away because it 's so obvious . |
| 5 | The spirits of Eileen and the Commander and of all who had died there , would crowd about him more densely than the blown petals of the flowering cherries . |
| 6 | I should be glad to hear what you are going to do about her as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Mrs Ross , Mrs Girdlestone added , had only her pension to live on , and she repeated that she would be glad if I could do something about her as soon as possible . |
| 8 | She talked about it today partly because she was warm , relaxed and happy , but more because she felt she owed it to Leo . |
| 9 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 10 | I want to write about it here so that new writers will know it exists and perhaps be brave enough to address this difficult aspect of our experience in their work . |
| 11 | Maybe men talk about it even less than women do . |
| 12 | His father did n't like talking about it much either and used to be slightly dismissive and jokey about it all . |
| 13 | So if you can think about it like laterally but we gon na have to work out an argument |
| 14 | So far , only a handful of candidates for the TBM 700 rating have been asked to thing about it more seriously and take some refresher training elsewhere before coming back . |
| 15 | Many people besides farmers have problems caused by this er tax that , whatever one thinks er about it so far as the system is concerned , really when you look at it more closely it 's the details that have been so badly thought out . |
| 16 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 17 | But everyone advised me to forget about it as soon as possible . |
| 18 | I believe that it is valuable for children to learn to use this experience , and to become able , at will , to look at language rather than through it , to think about it as well as with it . |
| 19 | If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed . |