Example sentences of "about it [prep] [art] [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 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 3 | This means that newcomers to the union would have confidence about using it , and not feel so anxious about it as a new and untried form of credit as they might if it was instead an advertised credit institution . |
| 4 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 5 | With appropriate care and support from colleagues ( and time to ‘ heal ’ ) , there is every chance that victims of violent assaults will be able to get back to work quite quickly , complete the cycle of adjustment to the incident , and be able to incorporate their disturbing feelings about it as an accepted aspect of their work experience to learn from . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gooseneck found out about it through a retired old retainer who lived in the area . |
| 8 | to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it . |
| 9 | ‘ Did he say anything about it on a subsequent occasion ? , |
| 10 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 11 | Negative programming can be general or specific and , unless something is done about it at a later date , its effects can last a lifetime . |
| 12 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 13 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 14 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 18 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 19 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 20 | But he does n't do anything about it for a long time . |
| 21 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 22 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 23 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 24 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 25 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 26 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 27 | 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 : |
| 28 | You can talk about it to a close friend , though , which very often helps to ease the situation and subsequently make yourself better . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | I thought no more about it till the following week . |