Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 2 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 3 | He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me … |
| 4 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 5 | I think that is actually something that I like about him , the fact that he left school early , that he did actually have to struggle . |
| 6 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
| 7 | Now that I think about it , very , very lucky indeed . |
| 8 | Now that I think about it , his behaviour had been a little odd . |
| 9 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 10 | ‘ Now that I think about it , back home Prince is either the name of a rock singer — or a dog , ’ Caroline said slowly . |
| 11 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 12 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
| 13 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 14 | So he 'll be glad to know that she thought about him and wanted him to know it . ’ |
| 15 | She admits that she thought about it seriously enough . |
| 16 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 17 | It was n't as if he was married to Wendy , or that she knew about it . |
| 18 | She put the onus quite honestly straight back on to parents , er it reminded me a little bit like er of the furore that she created about you know there are so many people being mugged , well is n't it their own fault that they go into dark places . |
| 19 | Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she minds about my being illegitimate . ’ |
| 20 | Linda Kelly has made herself so familiar with these redoubtable historical figures that she writes about them as though they were her next-door neighbours . |
| 21 | Once you are satisfied that your list is complete , look at all those qualities that you like about yourself . |
| 22 | The more that you know about what is normal and expected in diseases the easier it will be to evaluate the Peculiars . |
| 23 | So it 's important that you know about your rainwater disposal system — so that you can either put it in good repair and keep it that way or safely replace an old system with a modern plastic one which will work properly . |
| 24 | ‘ And how is it that you know about it ? ’ |
| 25 | If you contact them by means other than our Reader Service Card , please let them know that you read about them in CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN . |
| 26 | A smile , slight nods of the head , laughing at jokes , eye contact , all show the speaker that you care about what you are hearing . |
| 27 | course that we know about it . |
| 28 | ‘ We created a virtuous circle , ’ said Lockett , ‘ since the act of instituting the questionnaire in itself demonstrated to clients that we cared about them and their requirements . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I wanted to show that we cared about their predicament and wished to conduct a genial and mutually satisfying transaction , and I thought the head of the company bothering to put in an appearance might do that . ’ |
| 30 | Why do you think it might be important that we think about what we say and how we say it on the telephone ? erm There is a gap here for you to respond ! |