Example sentences of "have [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received about his proposal to introduce a Bill to address problems of youngsters under 17 years stealing cars . |
| 2 | It has forgotten about its opponent ; it has become interested in the architecture . |
| 3 | If he has to talk about his dog , before long he 'll be deadpanning his way through an entire history of his dog 's cousin Spot 's last tail operation . |
| 4 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 5 | His autobiography , Living Dangerously , and his book about the discovery of Ubar , Atlantis of the Sands , are just two of a string of best-sellers he has written about his adventures . |
| 6 | Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal . |
| 7 | He has written about his experiences in the respected twice-yearly Darlington Postgraduate Journal which is put together by doctors at the Memorial Hospital . |
| 8 | A similar exercise has been undertaken by Karlsson whose work we shall refer to again because of the interesting comments he has made about his observations from a genetics viewpoint . |
| 9 | Now that Howard has thought about his children , he misses them painfully . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , recent work on Mosley and the BUF has concurred about their basic unimportance . |
| 11 | It is the responsibility of all candidates to find out their results and of unsuccessful candidates to request their course director or senior course tutor to provide them with a written record of the decision which the Board of Examiners has taken about their progress . |
| 12 | Listen carefully to what he has to say about your hair , and the sort of style he thinks might look good on you . |
| 13 | ‘ What was she , some lonely widow who 'd heard about your hip ? ’ |
| 14 | I 'd forgotten about our old friend . |
| 15 | Erm I thought that you lost er I thought that you 'd forgotten about your referrals but you did actually come back to them erm and I 'm not quite sure whether you actually tackled all of ANNA , I know that you got the authority , I 'm not qu |
| 16 | Then , just as I was convinced of your innocence , I discovered you 'd lied about your brother and I caught you with Rainald . |
| 17 | The only person he 'd told about his odd vision had been Jenny , and she had laughed delightedly and understood . |
| 18 | There was a note from Lisabeth Sellotaped to my door telling me that Frank had phoned and that Salome was ‘ comfortable ’ which was heaps better than ‘ stable ’ , and he 'd talked about her being moved to town . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’ |
| 20 | She was sorry … terribly sorry … but she 'd had to tell about her visit to Melissa … she hoped it would n't mean trouble for her . |
| 21 | ( He must have heard about your legs ! ) |
| 22 | I suppose that many of you will have heard about my motoring experience a few weeks ago as I was travelling from Winfrith to Harwell . |
| 23 | If that ever got out , he 'd have to worry about his public image . |
| 24 | She would n't have to worry about his wound , Isabel decided . |
| 25 | But , ’ Jay teeters on the brink of a revelation , ‘ the A&R man does n't have to know about your music ; he has to know how the system works , how to get your material through the system . |
| 26 | And he , so apparently casual — punitively casual — often irritated by her anxiety , could also rely on her being there for him , but without having to know about his own need for her to be safely where he had left her . |
| 27 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 28 | A poet may heartily dislike having to talk about his verse but the knowledge that someone has actually read it is never unwelcome . |
| 29 | Well , having talked about my interest in , in popular literature I suppose I should begin by saying I do n't much like the distinction between good literature and pulp literature but , on the other hand , I do accept that it has a function . |
| 30 | They might have joked about his shortcomings as a husband and lover , he thought with anger and frustration building up inside him . |