Example sentences of "[to-vb] about food " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 2 | Gorbachev ordered a blockade on Lithuania ; and he told angry workers in Sverdlovsk not to worry about food . |
| 3 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 4 | If we are to believe late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etiquette writers ( which I do n't altogether ) this was a period when it was thought gross to talk about food except to your cook , and in bad taste to discuss your host 's wine . |
| 5 | You ate what you were given and tried to look as if you could n't really bear to think about food . |
| 6 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 7 | Have n't got time to think about food . |
| 8 | People are not keen to complain about food in hospital because they are grateful for the medical attention and because the majority of patients are not there for long . |
| 9 | He took the opportunity to make the occasion a sound platform for what he wanted to say about food , farming and cross-border co-operation . |