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 | ‘ I 've just never thought about it . ’ |
| 14 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 15 | Alison had probably never thought about getting . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | We had almost completely forgotten about Christmas — but at least the kitchen was finished . ’ |
| 18 | I had almost completely forgotten about we still having him ? |
| 19 | Most evenings he was able to relax in a much safer part of London , from his point of view : the West End , where the theatres and the cabarets , the smart restaurants and the exclusive nightspots were doing the sort of trade their proprietors had previously only dreamed about . |
| 20 | And then something ha no that is completely in your mind because I 'm rude to people all the time and I 've never even thought about it and I still do things and I do n't , you know , it does n't even cross my mind . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never really worried about what other people say about me . |
| 22 | But I 've never really known about the Slippery Elm stick , wh , er did n't get to the bottom of it , you know , what it was . |
| 23 | I 've never really thought about it , though , because I 've always had so many other things to do . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never really thought about it . |
| 25 | Erm I 've never really thought about it I think it 's a male thing probably is n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , I 've never really thought about it . ’ |
| 27 | Well I mean they 've never really spoken about it one way or another , encouraged me or discouraged me , which I think I 'm grateful for . |
| 28 | It 's just that I 've never seriously thought about it before . |
| 29 | I 've never actually thought about that . |
| 30 | Richard , 94 , and Ethel , 93 , of Malvern , Worcs. , agreed : ‘ We 've never once thought about anyone else . ’ |