Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb base] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I go about every eight weeks I think |
| 2 | He weighs 20 stone , and I worry about him being so overweight . |
| 3 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 4 | In our marriage George worries about money and I worry about everything else . |
| 5 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
| 6 | the , this , this is just one aspect of , of my writing and I write about all sorts of things and erm , erm the shows that I do , we use two artists that 's erm , I , I 've written erm two , two poems about erm , er Darren and , and erm Stanley er you you 've heard |
| 7 | There 's quite a few fancy their chances around here , and I know about them all ; but our Johnny 's a real lecher , so be warned . ’ |
| 8 | She knows about me and I know about her . |
| 9 | cos I mean I get er talked about it and I know about it and that kind of thing and I that Darrel |
| 10 | Journalist Shelley said : ‘ Neil and I argue about football all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ My friend Angela and I argue about John Lennon and Paul McCartney . |
| 12 | I 've done my own cleaning ready for Christmas which I had n't the energy for in the spring and my husband and I walk about 3–4 miles every day . |
| 13 | And such a sentence need n't be confined to the characters of the Bible ; words like those ought to be part of the way that you and I speak about our lives . |
| 14 | Tomorrow we are holding a party in our bungalow , which has room for about 60 people , and I imagine about that number may come . |
| 15 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 16 | And I mind about leaving you , Alice . " |
| 17 | An alternative use for peat alternative My mum buys your magazine , and I read about Geoff Hamilton 's cocopeat trials . |
| 18 | And I read about how dancers burn up the calories , so you 're to order whatever you like . ’ |
| 19 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 20 | You gripe about your mother and I gripe about mine . |
| 21 | They are n't , and I wonder about the mentality of their keepers. — . |
| 22 | Mr er speaker erm finance always to a certain extent and I wonder about finance in your organisation . |
| 23 | I work in it and I care about it , and I care about people going to see it . |
| 24 | I work in it and I care about it , and I care about people going to see it . |
| 25 | He and I talk about you every night , and wonder what you are saying and doing . |
| 26 | Why do n't you and I talk about it separately then |
| 27 | Yeah but I get really pissed off as well cos I well I , I wo n't like when I 'm with other people like and I talk about other pe like when I talk about Jenny and then I feel sort of like really two faced when I like start talking to Jenny and stuff . |
| 28 | His cap 's on the floor in front of him and I think about picking it up for him , cos maybe if he 's blind he do n't know he 's dropped it . |
| 29 | She looks real comfy there and I think about sitting down for a bit and watching telly , but I ai n't got nothing to sit on so I just carry on standing up . |
| 30 | And I think about admiral was about erm |