Example sentences of "about [Wh adv] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos there was n't a regulation afore about how deep they had to be . |
| 2 | It takes about 15 minutes to do this so you will have to be realistic about how frequently you could schedule it in . |
| 3 | But a £1 billion Eurobond would be the biggest the market has ever had to digest and capital markets experts were yesterday sceptical about how easy it would be for Lloyd 's to make such an issue without hefty costs . |
| 4 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 5 | As you construct your argument , you will be obliged to make judgements about how firmly you are committed to each of its ideas , and how strong the evidence is for believing them . |
| 6 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 7 | So much so that she was able to quieten any last lingering niggles about how easily she 'd folded by telling herself that tomorrow she would , most definitely , go out on her own . |
| 8 | They had often fantasised about how nice it would be to have a baby . |
| 9 | On this score , the results apparently gave Hambros some comfort , although Mr Irwin adds that ‘ it probably made us feel less complacent , especially on the treasury side , about how well we were doing in terms of our costs ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ After we lost in Moscow , I ushered the team back into the locker room and locked the door before any administrators could get in and give them a load of bull about how well we had done to run the mighty red machine so close . |
| 11 | Fourthly , at the level of individual test items , a question can be asked about how well they represent the learning that goes on in the classroom . |
| 12 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 13 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 14 | That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works . |
| 15 | These are not positive issues about how the economy works but normative issues about how well it works . |
| 16 | And I heard a lot about how well it worked last time . ’ |
| 17 | But there are doubts about how quickly it can be set up , given the party 's lack of money . |
| 18 | This question about how often you exercise and get sweaty is ridiculous . |
| 19 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 20 | One or two top senior Account Executives ( SAEs ) boast to the AEs about how much they are earning , making them all feel they are onto something really good . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 22 | They think about how much it will cost them to pay for their land and their buildings , their seeds and young livestock , their machinery and the wages of their farm labourers . |
| 23 | We need to know the costs of making the world a little safer , and we need to encourage society to make a decision about how much it values the benefits . |
| 24 | It went into great detail about how much it would take to start the colliery again and said that it would cost millions of pounds . |
| 25 | We may worry a little about how much it will cost , but we know that , by and large , we shall be able to meet the bill . |
| 26 | The interview ended shortly and our Elt said something about how perhaps he ought n't say that sort of thing on the Northwestern TV station … |
| 27 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 28 | And erm what I 'd like is for Dennis is to explain a little about how far we 've actually got with the C E D G approach to the introduction of I S O Nine Thousand . |
| 29 | Today there is dispute about how far he caused his and his followers deaths , or they were victims of a needless tragedy . |
| 30 | Sally lived in a happy whirl marred only by worrying about how far she should go . |