Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to hang about the school waiting for him to come out . |
| 2 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 3 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |
| 4 | It must for example , ensure an independent judiciary , provide health and education services , basic infrastructure and maintenance and it must bring about the economic environment that allows the private sector to create jobs and growth . |
| 5 | Talbot plotted against Errington and did all he could to bring about the coadjutor 's eventual resignation . |
| 6 | If things did n't improve , then he would set about the central-heating system . |
| 7 | Swansea had n't won on Llanelli 's ground for five years but shrewd Ruddock had worked out a week earlier just how he would bring about the upset . |
| 8 | Maybe it will bring about the brotherhood of man and the sisterhood of woman sooner than anything else . |