Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] about the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour .
2 However , with three exceptions , there was little evidence that disabled people and their organisations were properly consulted about the kind of service which they wanted .
3 They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship .
4 Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery .
5 Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing .
6 But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her .
7 He was most understanding about the needs of our party .
8 There is no point in denying them , even though we may justifiably quibble about the subjectivity of palaeontologists , the imprecision of the boundaries and the importance of the hidden gaps .
9 The Northern Regional Strategy Team had commented on the relatively small rate of owner-occupation and planners had long whinged about the impact of the shortage of ‘ executive housing ’ on industrial development .
10 My right hon. Friend knows that Opposition parties constantly carp about the level of pensions in Britain .
11 ‘ There I only cared about the money and all the other teachers were the same .
12 What does the environment you work in say about the company and its attitude towards employees ?
13 Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish .
14 He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege .
15 It helps one bid rationally , and more coherently , for congenial responsibilities , and therefore to feel more powerful and less resigned about the way these are distributed .
16 Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years .
17 Only to talk about the contract and the copy .
18 Not surprisingly they have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful for preparing the report , believe the report to be more descriptive and judgmental and think that their schools were less threatened about the review process .
19 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 .
20 We did not only speak about the service , but also about other aspects of ecumenism concerning our local community .
21 They 've come along to talk about the Services for Industry programme , and what the University can offer local firms .
22 Despite occasional misgivings , however , he was optimistic enough to speculate about the form which the next Labour Government might take …
23 so bothered about the diary as as actually trying to get
24 Then , while going through a divorce , I literally forgot about the fish ; the filter broke down and his tank became polluted as well as becoming overgrown with algae .
25 Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side .
26 Now we 're only bothered about the X.
27 Er as you can imagine in the circumstances of the civil war the government , the federal government , was much vexed about the question of spies and fifth columnists and people er in the , in the northern states er engaged in sabotage and collecting espionage of , of various kinds so er Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus .
28 I only know about the room .
29 There were n't many fashionables living on or near Dartmoor and Horatia was constantly complaining about the isolation .
30 Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so .
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