Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must speak to you about this . ’ |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to make a particular point about his locality , he should write to me about it and I shall ensure that account is taken of his views . |
| 3 | I wonder if I should talk to him about it ? |
| 4 | ‘ You should talk to him about Eileen , ’ she insisted . |
| 5 | John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll explain to you about them later on . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll explain to you about the course , and the exams the rest of it . |
| 8 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 9 | I , I 'll talk to you about that later Emma actually . |
| 10 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 11 | In my experience of doing exams , and I 'll talk to you about revision techniques in a minute , erm generally you 're better off to have a broad coverage of a syllabus rather than having a shallow one , right ? |
| 12 | I 'll talk to you about that |
| 13 | Yeah , but if you do n't invite them , tha , I 'll talk to you about it in a minute . |
| 14 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |
| 15 | ‘ Then I 'd talk to him about the socio-economic roots of poverty . ’ |
| 16 | He then continued : ‘ Instead of boring you with yet more politics , I thought I 'd talk to you about my recent trip to Southern Africa . ’ |
| 17 | The Queen had already heard rumours about the couple 's problems — but it really sank home just a year ago when Sarah asked if she could talk to her about ‘ a very personal matter ’ . |
| 18 | She could talk to her about Mama . |
| 19 | ‘ If you could talk to her about the amnio … ’ |
| 20 | I became friends with Juliet , , because she understood me , + I could talk to her about my opinions quite openly : she is very understanding in that way . |
| 21 | So , it was like a relief that I could talk to him about being pregnant . |
| 22 | If you do want to ask me anything about this I 've got some little booklets or I 'm sure some other people here could talk to you about it . |
| 23 | He used to write to me about how it was best for Stephen if he got adopted , 'cause I did n't know what I was going to do with me life , I was n't settled and I 'd probably end up back in prison . |
| 24 | I used to talk to her about it . |
| 25 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 26 | " Mr. Andrew did n't like it — he used to talk to me about it , and say how unhappy he was . |
| 27 | Who in God 's name would write to you about Lori ? ’ |
| 28 | I knew they had a band because Malcolm would talk to them about it . |
| 29 | Rory still went occasionally to Mass with her , and sometimes , as a kind of acknowledgement of how different he was from Michael , she would talk to him about the Church , and its importance in their lives . |
| 30 | ‘ She would talk to me about everything but the subject that mattered . |