Example sentences of "begin [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For simple statements they certainly apply , but Q. says that , when you begin to philosophise about the " why " and the " how " , the Romance words are required . |
| 2 | WHEN ASKED to list the aeronautical contributions made by the Bell Aircraft Corporation , most enthusiasts would begin talking about the P–39/P–63 line of fighters . |
| 3 | If we begin thinking about the details of the cube , we can try to restore one piece at a time . |
| 4 | Pushing himself with indolent grace away from the door , Rourke came into the room and began to rummage about the shelves beneath the counter . |
| 5 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 6 | And then his thoughts wandered again and he began to worry about the speed with which the vegetation was growing around the ramparts . |
| 7 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 8 | And he began to worry about the body in the garden . |
| 9 | When Seb was beginning to worry about the task , Carrie arrived at the farm , carried there on the back of a horse ridden by her father . |
| 10 | Times have changed since Naipaul began to write about the societies of the Caribbean : these are now less apt to seem , to the outsider , petty and remote . |
| 11 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 12 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 13 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 14 | Suddenly , he stood upright , held out his hands like paws , then bunched up the tails of his huge brown coat in front of his stomach to convey an impression of the kangaroo 's pouch , and began to bounce about the room . |
| 15 | Some of us , however , are beginning to wonder about the legendary fighting spirit of the Scottish people . |
| 16 | This depicted W H Smith as being accident prone — ‘ every time [ analysts ] meet the company there is another piece of bad news ’ — and weakly led : ‘ Brokers are also beginning to mutter about the effectiveness of the management led by opera buff and P G Wodehouse fan , chairman Sir Simon Hornby : they wonder if he is the right man to tackle the deep-seated problems at Do It All . ’ |
| 17 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 18 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 19 | There was a pause ; the Health chairman began to talk about the need for hospitals near roads ; accidents would happen , victims would need care . |
| 20 | ‘ This is the story of how God created the world , ’ and he began to talk about the light and the darkness , the coming of the sky and the sea , the fish and the animals and of Adam and Eve . |
| 21 | Baldwin at once began to talk about the walk they would have the following morning , and suggested that they should eschew the subject of coal for the evening . |
| 22 | Beside him , Clarac began to talk about the progress they had made , the difficulties they had overcome , but Berdichev was hardly listening . |
| 23 | The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio . |
| 24 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 25 | While John Carter waited in custody , local police began wondering about the strange disappearance of the farmer 's second wife . |
| 26 | Serious doubts are beginning to emerge about the new blueprint already . |
| 27 | Business and the bourgeoisie soon overcame their initial gratitude at being spared revolution and began to grumble about the " collectivism " of de Gaulle 's economic policies , not to mention the inclusion of communists in his government . |
| 28 | Soon the demands grew so heavy the photocopier could not cope , and originals began to fly about the system . |
| 29 | She suppressed an embarrassed chortle as the men began to chat about the paper . |
| 30 | After the routine admiration of children , garden , and so on , they began to chat about the office . |