Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Battle of Britain did n't last long , but I 'm afraid you 've got about another five years of war , Johnny . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , good , ’ said Garvin , ‘ I was afraid you 'd forgotten about things like that , with your recent preoccupations . ’ |
| 3 | In public they have to boast about the training revolution they are supposedly leading . |
| 4 | She wondered whether it were conceivable he had forgotten about it . |
| 5 | ‘ Will you tell her how much I 've worried about her ? ’ asked Harry . |
| 6 | ‘ To be honest I 'd forgotten about the money until Jim Boyce reminded me , ’ said manager Frankie Parks after the 4–0 win . |
| 7 | No man wants to come home from the war to a wife or sweetheart who shows in her face how much she has worried about him . |
| 8 | Then test yourself on how much you 've learned about the way your particular machine works . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry you had to worry about me because I would n't let you know what was going on in my mind , but I hope now you 'll realise why I kept silent for so long . |
| 10 | ‘ From the little I 've grasped about him I 'd say that was unlikely , to say the least . ’ |
| 11 | She tried to remember the little he had said about Suvarov , but all she could think of was that without him neither she nor Anthony would have met David . |
| 12 | Well could I I mean this is of course one of the criticisms that one had to bear about Mrs. Thatcher about erm they say he 's not his own man , that to me indicates that he may be taking advice . |
| 13 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 14 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |
| 15 | The dropping of these conditions may have allowed my Great-grandfather to qualify , as by all I have heard about him he had none of the virtues which were needed to gain entry . |
| 16 | " I 'm sure I 've asked about your Meals on Wheels , dear , I remember distinctly " |
| 17 | Meet Dr Kate Ash , the representative from IMP whom I 'm sure you 've heard about ! ’ |
| 18 | Many who have written about social policy have done so from the standpoint of Fabian socialism , concerned with incremental social change to create a more equal society . |
| 19 | From my observance , you 're not exactly overjoyed , although in view of all you 've said about Robert you ought to be rejoicing . |
| 20 | All all you have to worry about is selling the advertising . |
| 21 | All we 've talked about so far is drinking and lying on a beach . |
| 22 | It will , however , always be difficult … all we have said about organisation level validation applies to evaluation : it is hard to see how we can evaluate training unless our validation has reached the organisation level … ‘ |
| 23 | That 's all they 've talked about at work , you know . ’ |
| 24 | She 'd tell her every single thing , all he 'd said about Commander Abigail and all about the bath and the wedding-dress and what he was saying now , about witnessing the accident . |
| 25 | Arriving early for a night session is a good idea for several reasons , not least those I have mentioned about having plenty of time to tackle up in daylight , bait the swim , and settle in comfortably . |
| 26 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 27 | Even in this era of psycho-history , it is impossible to think of any other historical character of note whose public persona has been so submerged , and private morality so relentlessly pursued with such ruthless subjectivity on the part of those who have written about her . |
| 28 | And although this is conjecture , I feel it should be mentioned , if only because the primal mother-child relationship so highly emphasised in post-Freudian psychoanalytic literature has been largely ignored by those who have written about anorexia nervosa . |
| 29 | So November the twenty fourth we 've got about one more month of the days getting shorter erm before the days start getting longer again . |
| 30 | She remembered what the fat one had said about Mallachy 's hands . |