Example sentences of "about what i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small children have strong ideas about what mothers do or do not do ; my own adolescent children are very worried about what I might do in public to embarrass them . |
| 2 | The Aristotelian view , as I have interpreted it , ‘ works ’ only to the extent that it is assumed that there is no problem about what I shall call ‘ the autonomy of desires ’ . |
| 3 | Every evening , as I lift my key towards the lock of my own front door , the same thoughts formulate themselves — the same sudden loss of courage , in my case , the same leaden fear about what I shall find . |
| 4 | ‘ She says , can you come to coffee and tell her about what I 'll need for school . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't really think at all , not about where I was going , nor about what I would do when I got there . |
| 6 | I 've sometimes made some rather awful mistakes when I have thought first about what I would like to give rather than what my friends would like to receive , so do try to find out before you embark on a special garment . |
| 7 | Apartment 28A in the Alcade Apartments was about what I would have expected . |
| 8 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 9 | She asked me to think about what I could do to protect myself . |
| 10 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 11 | I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize . |
| 12 | Have you any ideas about what I should do ? |
| 13 | I came away from the Oxford seminar with a clear idea in my mind about what I should do to stimulate discussion on this subject in Wales . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I 'm much more focused about what I can do . ’ |
| 15 | The agency have agreed to pay me a retainer for a couple of weeks while I think about what I 'd like to do next . ’ |
| 16 | The Trust still asks my advice , but it 's not an easy process because although I 'm very old I 've still got a clear idea about what I 'd like to do in the garden . ’ |