Example sentences of "go about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
| 2 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 3 | Here are some pointers on how to go about the writing task : 1 . |
| 4 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 5 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 6 | I take Eubank to win in four if he goes about the task like a true champion . |
| 7 | The head who goes about the job with tremendous enthusiasm and courtesy is likely to generate these attributes in other members of staff . |
| 8 | Two further points are of importance in going about the budgeting process . |
| 9 | The simplest way of getting an answer is to show the advertisement to a number of individuals selected from the target group , or to a group of them , and to get a discussion going about the ad . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things . |
| 11 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 12 | Leopold related the news , and the Archbishop 's excuse for not having allowed father and son to travel the previous year : ‘ he said that he could not tolerate people going about the world begging ’ ( 31 August 1778 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Mum , ’ said Camille , cool with the confidence of the adolescent who knows that the rules of mortality , the risks inherent in living and going about the world , do not apply to her . |
| 14 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 15 | Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image . |
| 16 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
| 17 | That is the portrait of a don , a don in his supreme incarnation , a don going about the business that he was designed for by nature . |
| 18 | But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae . |
| 19 | Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork . |
| 20 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 21 | Field officers do not go about the business of bringing pollution to light in an unpatterned way . |
| 22 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 23 | Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities . |
| 24 | Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities . |
| 25 | They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories . |
| 26 | And can I just explain how we go about the course . |
| 27 | They both go about the Principality boasting about their actions in terms of foreign investment in Wales . |
| 28 | As they go about the city they search for God . |
| 29 | It is the structural proteins which are of real interest , as they go about the business of actually modifying cells ; the immediate early gene mechanism is a piece of molecular biological housekeeping , which probably seems arcane not merely to most non-biochemists but to biochemists as well . |
| 30 | Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake . |