Example sentences of "about [v-ing] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 2 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 3 | There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans . |
| 4 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
| 5 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 6 | Ferguson revealed : ‘ I have been so impressed by Danny 's form that I am now giving serious consideration about playing him in the League team . |
| 7 | So we hid it somewhere really good , where nobody 'd think of looking ! — Anyway , it do n't matter about putting it in the bank now , does it ? |
| 8 | We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic . |
| 9 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |