Example sentences of "for [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | For explaining about my family . |
| 2 | Jones was yesterday charged with bringing the game into disrepute for boasting about his sickening and cynical philosophy towards the game on the tape titled ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men . ’ |
| 3 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 4 | My qualification for writing about skiing in the USA is unusual : I have never done it . |
| 5 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 6 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 7 | Thank you for writing about your SSSIs campaign . |
| 8 | Comparative study ( of different languages , dialects , styles , etc. ) can make explicit what is usually taken for granted about language . |
| 9 | I hear you want a black British warm for prowling about the streets at night . |
| 10 | I lost my temper too — I 'm sorry for shouting about the fire . |
| 11 | The language of psychoanalysis does provide a means for communicating about conscious and unconscious emotion in such circumstances . |
| 12 | Perhaps the reflection upon and discussion of concrete personal experience should play a role of similar importance in teacher development , especially when our language for communicating about educational problems is so obviously deficient . |
| 13 | There are only two possible grounds for worrying about the ownership of ICI : national security , and competition . |
| 14 | Apart from the hurt feelings of departing managers , the most common reason for worrying about America 's spate of takeovers in the 1980s was that it pushed firms heavily into debt . |
| 15 | I did not sleep a wink last night for worrying about you and if you are alright . |
| 16 | The other reason for worrying about which version you should use relates to AUTHENTICITY . |
| 17 | As for worrying about my displeasure … ’ |
| 18 | For years , he had pitted himself against it , aware that it would mean the time for worrying about the future was over and the time for action had arrived . |
| 19 | Halfway through the journal he had jumped to his feet — he was ready to rush out of the room , to find Havvie Blaine , to kill him for what he had done to her , and for lying about it afterwards . |
| 20 | Small wonder that there was little time or taste for theorizing about ideal forms of secondary education . |
| 21 | Thank you for caring about a useless old man . ’ |
| 22 | Thank you for enquiring about the cycle tour to New Zealand in early 1993 . |
| 23 | Small group methods such as seminars or demonstrations appear to be more suitable for teaching about online IR . |
| 24 | an increase in data collections of all kinds and in the use of authentic language materials for teaching about the uses of language ; |
| 25 | The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) , frequently cited and more frequently violated , provides the framework for teaching about human rights . |
| 26 | Many respondents maintained ( some quite hotly ) that teaching experience and/or qualifications in literature , French , or other degree subjects were adequate for teaching about language . |
| 27 | During the course of this research , the main thrust if the work was the development of the criteria needed for teaching about how Prolog executes a program . |
| 28 | This lay demand for teaching about contemplative spirituality together with the particular emphases of individual mystics who met and also stimulated it in fourteenth-century England , both represents , and engages with , a complex web of theological and socio-historical developments . |
| 29 | In concrete terms this could involve gradually introducing incidental activities of fetching and returning materials and taking messages , until the pupil is finally able to take total responsibility for getting about unaided and coping with all aspects of the environment on the school campus . |
| 30 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |