Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 2 | In the woods of oak she passed glades where cowled men chanted over carved wooden heads or walked about the piled armour of dead warriors . |
| 3 | Life , however , is more about building on the little triumphs than moping about disasters , and Carlos Remy certainly enjoyed a rare taste of the former during the Championship drubbing at Southampton . |
| 4 | He shows marked fondness for first-grade readers that tell about occurrences in the lives of children . |
| 5 | those bricks that fall about your feet , |
| 6 | presents than worry about the tree at the moment . |
| 7 | After the judgment , Mr Ashton was approached by a group of irate depositors and questioned about the return of their money . |
| 8 | There was another ant-hill nearby and he copied Dandelion , sitting upright on his hind legs and looking about him . |
| 9 | Guards met him , helped him out , standing back , their heads bowed , as he stretched his legs and looked about him . |
| 10 | In 1954 one was washed ashore in Norway that measured 9 metres from the end of its body to the tip of its outstretched tentacles and weighed about a ton . |
| 11 | Contact the solicitor or secretary of your local County or District Council to ask if you can visit the offices and talk about the job to one of the solicitors . |
| 12 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 14 | I open my eyes and think about it for a bit . |
| 15 | He gazed out to the horizon with unseeing eyes and thought about his present life , the hopelessness of the future , about Amy , about his family . |
| 16 | Think about the , think about the sizes , think about the weights and think about what it 's got ta be used for and that is really got to relate to the dressing in the dressing room because there 's all sorts of things there , there 's jewellery , there 's hats . |
| 17 | I look at those pictures and think about joining a religious order . ’ |
| 18 | So why do n't these guys forget about the influences and worry about what we 're doing and what we actually sound like . |
| 19 | I was so concerned that I also really did n't trust other people or stupid books to explain to me whereas usually , in most things I do , if I do n't understand them I 'll go to the library and get books and read about it and find out . |
| 20 | Darwin did not have to overthrow a coherent and worked-out theory ; he had to persuade contemporaries that hypothesizing about origins was worthwhile . |
| 21 | I 'd sooner think about my insides than think about my face or my body . |
| 22 | This latter objective is also covered by visiting companies and talking about the requirements of HCIMA membership to encourage a link between their recruitment and training policies and the HCIMA membership criteria . |
| 23 | Er , people went into corners and talked about her . |
| 24 | The working conceptions the individual holds of authority and , by extension , organization , no matter how much overlaid by experiences and learning about management , are based on his early experiences of his family and authority figures , such as parents and teachers . |
| 25 | First stop is a visit to the beautiful Frans Roozen nurseries where you can admire the vast show gardens and learn about the art of growing flower bulbs from their fascinating information gallery . |
| 26 | Another idea is ‘ a national network that will link working engineers and scientists with every school in the country … so that our boys and girls can see role models and learn about the work of engineers , scientists and industry ’ . |
| 27 | The third time she clambered stiffly to her feet and looked about her , dazed by the darkness outside the closed circle of torchlight , and switched off the beam to acclimatise once again to the starry night . |
| 28 | The student sons and daughters of the curators wear such items on their feet and talk about Madonna and Terminator , so it 's time for a rethink . |
| 29 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 30 | If you can put yourself in the other person 's shoes and think about how they might feel , it will certainly help if you let them know that . |