Example sentences of "[to-vb] about love " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 2 | And while we 're talking about the man 's divine right to know , little babies are born knowing all they need to know about love : they 're unselfconscious , they can communicate , and their first experience — sucking — is a sensual one ! |
| 3 | She was the infinitely alluring , forever mysterious older woman who knew everything there was to know about love , sex , and romantic liaisons . |
| 4 | She wanted to know about love , a man 's side of the story . |
| 5 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 6 | Sexual desire would be much easier if we did n't have to worry about love . |
| 7 | It is all very well to talk about love , but it depends what you mean by it , for love is one of the most devalued terms and concepts in our language . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , I do n't want to talk about love , women , past marriages , present marriages , family , stuff that normal people do n't readily talk about … |
| 9 | When she stopped talking about art , she began to talk about love . |
| 10 | She had never had time to think about love before , had thought that Bruno had burned that out of her . |