Example sentences of "[verb] to [indef pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | About quangos whatsoever , I want to something about the boundaries of the European parliament . |
| 2 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 3 | ‘ I think what appealed to everyone about Tom was his utter reliability . |
| 4 | Not us not us , every time I speak to somebody about something , you know marketing can do it , y'know everybody 's d giving away free tickets as a way out of y'know compensate the people , re-dressing the situation . |
| 5 | The Union leaders are going to send some doctors to the factory to talk to everyone about the dangers of uranium . ’ |
| 6 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 7 | At long last he was able to talk to someone about it . |
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| 9 | He 'd desperately needed to talk to someone about this and when he 'd thought about it , William was the only person he could talk to . |
| 10 | I wanted to talk to someone about it . |
| 11 | ‘ Up to now ’ , Miss Honey went on , ‘ I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems . |
| 12 | She is not permitted to talk to anyone about the marriage now . ’ |
| 13 | I was too scared to talk to anyone about them , because I did n't think they 'd understand , and I never wanted you to find out as I though it would destroy you . |
| 14 | ‘ Bill said , ‘ Have you — have you talked to anyone about it ? |
| 15 | I was speaking to somebody about this er , a few days ago , and you know they said erm I said , in a way that does n't really apply today , because none of us like to think we 're bad . |
| 16 | I know that because he talked to everyone about it . |
| 17 | Because even if you you have sat down and spoken to somebody about the project for five minutes , and given them all the other information , |
| 18 | Beth was oddly relieved that she had not confided in Cissie ; not that she did n't trust the girl , but because she had never spoken to anyone about her family , or her reason for leaving them all those years ago . |
| 19 | ‘ You have n't spoken to anyone about it ? ’ |
| 20 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 21 | ‘ You must not think that Sir Charles spoke to anyone about you , ’ I said . |
| 22 | I never actually spoke to anybody about boyfriends , contraceptives , intercourse , whatever , I just sort of picked little things up , I thought if you were under sixteen either your parents came with you or you do n't get anything . |
| 23 | Erm I once , talking to somebody about this and er he said erm , well he said I think I must be an intuitive because I 've never let the facts get in the way of a good idea . |
| 24 | and it 's a case of er if you 're talking to somebody about pension requirement it would be a case of Mr Prospect let's just have a look , let's imagine today is the last day that you 'll be working as a carpenter . |
| 25 | And then I was talking to somebody about this and they and they burst out laughing and said well we 've got a friend , a male friend a mate of mine he said and he loves walking . |
| 26 | Talking to someone about how she was feeling and not bottling up her worries . |
| 27 | nice talking to someone about education cos I talk to some people and they think I 'm crackers cos I took my kid out of a state school ! |
| 28 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 29 | I know erm I thought I wrote to the electricity board in , I wrote to somebody about erm how er things should be labelled about how efficient they are when using electricity . |
| 30 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |