Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] with [adj] [noun] about " in BNC.

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1 One SAE applauded an AE who had come out with this line about futures : " This stuff is granny bonds , it 's so simple . "
2 We did decide that we should reduce the money that is received by Councillors , and so they were proposals that were made along with other proposals about reductions in members ' services .
3 Steve Dunleavy , who is the host of the show , A Current Affair , said : ‘ I was asking Taki about all the royals when he came out with this claim about Prince Edward . ’
4 I remember watching the last episode on your predecessor ATV when it was repeated in 1976 and the announcer talked of people calling in with various theories about what it was all supposed to mean .
5 The main point , however , is that this alternative way of analysing profit seems to lend itself more naturally to business thinking and can be linked in with conceptual thinking about strategy .
6 Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed .
7 ‘ It ca n't be helping much , if you keep coming up with crazy ideas about what I 'm supposed to be up to . ’
8 However , this young man , besides having the wrong car , was not the most talented of drivers and my first ten minutes were taken up with some anxiety about the likelihood of our arriving at the Consulate intact .
9 So , can we come up with any speculations about relatively probable ways in which cumulative selection might have got its start ?
10 She hoped he would n't come up with any suggestions about spending the evening together .
11 I am amazed that the hon. Gentleman should come out with those remarks about the deterrent in which we are investing just when his party is purporting to change its policy .
12 He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it .
13 As the visiting speaker told his tale , others chipped in with humorous stories about the nose-picking chairman : failed English ‘ O ’ level seven times … sent his car for a Ministry of Transport Test with both headlights out of order and no brakes … a complete nut-case .
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