Example sentences of "[noun] about it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he this was a week and a half ago and he said , give me a couple of weeks , I want to have a look at the figures and the mix and have a think about it and I 'll come back to you . |
| 2 | There was a terrible resignation about it and a patience , and the pity of it slammed Taliesin at the base of his throat . |
| 3 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 4 | He said , " I 've talked to Mum about it and if you do n't want to get married then no one is going to force you to . |
| 5 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 6 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll just tell you a bit about it and then you can see . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd have to talk about wi I could talk to Roger about it and see what |
| 9 | The surface of the water had a slick , glassy look about it and Carey 's cast disappeared with barely a splash . |
| 10 | So I supposed I 'd better tell my board about it and I did this afternoon . |
| 11 | We had words about it and I told her to go ! |
| 12 | It has a peculiarly romantic ring about it and refers to ‘ special protection , opportunities and facilities to enable them to develop in a healthy and normal manner in freedom and dignity ’ , to ‘ special treatment , education and care ’ and ‘ love and understanding and an atmosphere of affection and security ’ . |
| 13 | As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that . |
| 14 | I feel that there is an awful lot of gossip and scare tactics about it and I 'd like to , to have a real expert information on it . |
| 15 | Although it is of course true that people can be greatly helped by having the opportunity to talk about their impending loss , ( both their worries about it and their wish to talk about it together with the person who is dying ) this must be when the time feels right for the people involved and not when the helper , professional or lay , deems it appropriate . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series . |
| 17 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |
| 18 | They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’ |
| 19 | I had a good laugh about it and eventually she saw the funny side . |
| 20 | Water 's gone under the bridge since then be fair did not perform well there 's no question about it and we have worked with her in the field erm she was n't she was n't brilliant |
| 21 | there 's no question about it and I thought well let's try the other way , let's , let's throw all this C C Q and , and all the rest of it to see how it falls . |
| 22 | He says he 's had not nearly enough sex education at school , he could n't talk to his parents about it and boys just do n't speak to their mates when it comes to something so intimate and private . |
| 23 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 24 | Joke about it and all that , they do n't like it then . |
| 25 | In addition to asking questions pupils have to develop the ability to analyse historical evidence , make judgements about it and in doing so develop a sense of perspective about the people of the past . |
| 26 | And she was supposed to be a witch right enough and the men from all round about here er had a meeting about it and they I think met at the barn of Dale . |
| 27 | The method is probably too little used because communication has an aura of truth about it and our cultural habit is to seek out truth rather than design workable falsehoods . |
| 28 | It 's quite normal for a mum to feel like that and they can talk to each other about it and support each other . |
| 29 | I was talking to Catherine about it and erm she said she said oh take me . |
| 30 | Sunday lunch has a suitable sense of occasion about it and for many people it is the only time of the week when they can relax and enjoy a leisurely get-together with family or friends . |