Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Access to information held about them will help clients understand better the processes in which they are involved , and to participate in decisions that critically effect them . |
| 2 | Such methods are outside the scope of this book , but those who are interested in reading more about them will find relevant books in Suggested Reading on p. 141 . |
| 3 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
| 4 | Yeah , probably , me and this other mate he 'd a , did a , I can , I can remember him saying something about I 'll race yeah , it , like I remember just remember him , me and him run running down ramps and stuff trying to get back down to the ground floor , so . |
| 5 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 6 | By that time we should have about I would say at least another ten thousand pounds in that account of yours . |
| 7 | We might go to France in another four er about I would say spring time |
| 8 | Erm the it was about I should imagine well guess , three years old back then . |
| 9 | Well you 've got a lot of other things to think about I 'd say . |
| 10 | No , only about I 'd say late twenties Ed , you know , do know what it was though , he never had a drink he just sat there talking to himself , having a good chat to somebody , aye |
| 11 | ‘ If that 's all you 're worried about I can explain simply enough . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Still , if there 's anything you want to talk about you 'll have to talk to me or no one . ’ |
| 13 | Erm now next week you were saying something about you 'd like one on Easter Monday , I wo n't actually be here . |
| 14 | If you can understand what your apathy is about you will realize that the only way to overcome it is to act . |
| 15 | Well I 'm a little bit concerned , however , that er the letters I had er reflect a rather exaggerated view about we will say yeah or nay or may . |
| 16 | What I have deplored or been sceptical about they would find admirable . |
| 17 | I think there are many purposes that the County Farms should have , and we need to look at what is the best value financially , that we can obtain for the people of Wiltshire , so when everybody talks about they 'd like their country schools maintained , they 'd like this that or the other bought , they 'd like Corsham station purchased , we could buy it easily if we sold a County Farm could n't we ? |
| 18 | Is it Friend ? thought Chesarynth , sure that something about him would give himself away . |
| 19 | ‘ Gazza 's daft but he 's not a nutcase — though the things being written about him would put anyone mental . |
| 20 | Information about him would have to be gathered slowly and subtly . |
| 21 | The things he could tell you about her would make your hair curl . |
| 22 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 23 | A few facts about her will help to clarify the position . |
| 24 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 25 | People who do n't know anything about it might assume that it simply involves standing in front of a camera or walking down a catwalk . |
| 26 | To engage in activities defined as ‘ craft ’ without thinking about it might appear to be a merry dance but the sludge is always there to be slipped up in . |
| 27 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 28 | Arguing from silence is dangerous , but had he played a significant role in Cnut 's Scandinavian wars of c.1025-8 ( see below ) information about it might have been expected to survive , and so he perhaps did disappear from the scene soon after 1023 . |
| 29 | An improved version of the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) was on the stocks but a manager 's negotiation about it would have to take place with the City and Guilds of London Institute ( CGLI ) . |
| 30 | The fact that you have thought things through instead of just feeling totally inadequate and that you are trying to do something about it should help you feel more positive . |