Example sentences of "[adv] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke powerfully about the insecurity of football and the potential dangers behind every challenge . |
| 2 | He gazed despairingly about the room . |
| 3 | There is , I know , much gnashing of teeth , banging of beer glasses etc. about the non-appearance of the Ogwen & Carneddau and Llanberis guides , but both these tomes are at least on the horizon now . |
| 4 | Adam it was who made up the fires of a morning , when his mistress , who slept only fitfully at night , was already awake , Adam who crept noiselessly about the place , unnoticed , who must have seen them together last night outside the ballroom . |
| 5 | Sometimes he reproved her weakly about the shirts . |
| 6 | Most women care intensely about the surroundings in which they live , and their sense of security is tied up with the home ; their moods and personalities feed into the home and contribute to its atmosphere . |
| 7 | Maurice who still had n't exactly made out who he was , suddenly cared intensely about the loss . |
| 8 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 9 | Mostly about the film — and they want to talk about another book . ’ |
| 10 | Mostly about the Groucho Club . |
| 11 | The man himself , is quite outspoken about past and present , but mostly about the future . |
| 12 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 13 | The information in the series of guides by J. Watson Lyall which begin in 1873 is mostly about the shootings and fishings . |
| 14 | Fenella 's complaints continued to be mostly about the way he treated her on stage . |
| 15 | The book tells us mostly about the problems of raising money that had to be done at each stop over . |
| 16 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 17 | We have talked loosely about the original atmosphere of the Earth , and the way in which it affected and perhaps still affects life . |
| 18 | Of the literati in their thrall , Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts . |
| 19 | ‘ At present I worry most about the unemployment statistics , the poverty data and any suggestions of tampering with the Retail Price Index . ’ |
| 20 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 21 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 22 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 23 | He concludes that ‘ the people who should know most about the problem often do n't recognise it ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ The thing I get asked most about the Stealth is why there 's an ‘ aux in ’ socket on the front . |
| 25 | ‘ The first playback to the A&R people is the thing I dislike most about the job , ’ he concedes . |
| 26 | Over some excellent claret at the judge 's lodgings in St Albans , he said , ‘ What I remember most about the trial — and I had n't expected it — was the character of Eck . |
| 27 | This is the time at which children learn most about the standards of behaviour in our society . |
| 28 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
| 29 | Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back . |
| 30 | Which of the questions below will reveal most about the reader 's communicative competence ? |