Example sentences of "[vb base] to about " in BNC.
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| 1 | we probably want to about work again . |
| 2 | I again congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham on initiating this debate , particularly since virtually everybody I speak to about employment , especially if they are out of work , tell me , ’ It 's tough . |
| 3 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 4 | speak to about this . |
| 5 | I mean it 's not just letting the excesses go which I think understand it when you first said it , so that idea in itself is a Party idea , it 's not just letting the , the peasants do it and say well okay what you 're trying to say now is that okay that we have got this strategy , we 'll let the excesses go and then we 'll stop it , we get to about stage B and stage C and move on and move on . |
| 6 | Zero by the time you get to about here |
| 7 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 8 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 9 | People you can relax with , talk to about anything or nothing , even argue with and it — does n't matter . |
| 10 | And I 'm going to get some tapes to Clare and the letter writing stuff , find out about a photocopying account , talk to about more tapes , transcription notes , erm meeting log forms , demographic transcription , and editing of transcription that we do . |
| 11 | Electric running costs amount to about the price of a bus ticket . |
| 12 | MCI Communications Corp says capital spending will peak at about $1,600m in 1993 versus $1,400m in 1992 , and return to about the 1992 level after it completes construction of its long-distance link between Chicago and Salt Lake City . |