Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.

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1 This bloke here has only just come about fifteen miles up the road .
2 To his surprise he finds himself basically in agreement on a wide range of questions which he has never really thought about before .
3 Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him .
4 He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her .
5 Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there .
6 But he 'd never really thought about the insides .
7 He 'd never really thought about it before today .
8 I 've only just read about this old caddie you found murdered .
9 I 've only usually got about one pen .
10 For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true .
11 Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband .
12 I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death .
13 He 'd never mentioned it to her and she had not even thought about it until now , but therein lay her escape .
14 She had not even thought about persuading Marek Nowak to write down what he had told her .
15 He grilled me severely about the attitude and background of the character , the place he would occupy in the programme , his point of view , and innumerable other aspects of Byron which I had not yet thought about . ’
16 Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland .
17 ‘ I 've just never thought about it . ’
18 No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action .
19 Alison had probably never thought about getting .
20 Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] .
21 Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them .
22 Jack suddenly remembered that he had n't sought out Ho Chan at school ; he had n't even thought about it .
23 This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine .
24 He had n't even listened about the curtains .
25 They had n't really talked about it .
26 Most of the people … had n't really thought about civil rights ; they had come , with a sort of friendly curiosity , to hear something .
27 I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize .
28 ‘ So when I went into labour I had n't really thought about whether or not to have an epidural .
29 I had n't really thought about it . ’
30 She had n't really thought about him , she realized .
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