Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wedding Present have often talked about their ambivalent attitude towards chart success but just missing out upset manager Brian Hallin who complained to NME that Gallup had ‘ moved the goal posts around . ’ |
| 2 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 3 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 4 | A memory of that facetious remark Vass had once made about opposites and their power to attract . |
| 5 | Tomorrow 's OCC systems will combine video , sound , and graphics in a generation of computers the business world has only dreamed about . |
| 6 | The malai propaganda machine had always lied about the scale of casualties in our earlier Civil War . |
| 7 | Lastly , the opponents of drainage schemes have long complained about the secrecy with which the Ministry of Agriculture and the water authorities have shrouded their calculations , together with their almost universal resistance to public inquiries , which are now a normal part of the process of consultation preceding road and reservoir schemes . |
| 8 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 9 | The rumours were further fuelled by a general statement Conran had previously made about the responsibilities of a group chairman when talking to a journalist . |
| 10 | This was the first time Eve had ever talked about her life . |
| 11 | But in this instance , comrade Preobrazhensky has completely forgotten about this fundamental methodological demand of Marxism . |
| 12 | These are far-ranging debates on the state of the economy , though for some third of the time members have actually talked about taxation . |