Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | rather than throw it about |
| 2 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 3 | Rather than do anything about it , the Council pay the farmers a subsidy to filter the water . |
| 4 | If you have made a sizeable number of miniatures , you could consider displaying them all together , rather than dotting them about your home in collections of ones and twos . |
| 5 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 6 | There again , I do n't know whether to confront her about it , write her a letter or what . |
| 7 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 8 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 9 | What heartened as well as chastened me about the letter was his wish to see more of my writing . |