Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |
| 2 | Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was . |
| 3 | chasing back to the local paper to the approximate time that we think they died see if they report enough about them . |
| 4 | They point out that well known communication graphic techniques such as pie charts often do a good job of summarising data but are of little use as exploratory tools since they reveal little about their structure . |
| 5 | Ask children what they line best about the school . |
| 6 | They worry also about the possibility that war could spill out into the so-far peaceful bits of the Balkan neighbourhood ( see below ) . |
| 7 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 8 | They 'll never better Please Do n't Make Me Cry , and they know more about Neil Diamond 's Red Red Wine than he does . |
| 9 | So , next time you talk to your stringer , check out they know more about their job than you do . |
| 10 | Admittedly , Interpol 's writ does n't run worldwide — they would have zero clout in places , say , like Tripoli , Tehran or Beirut — and they are an information gathering and dispensing agency not an executive unit , and they know more about bad people than any other group in the world . |
| 11 | If no obvious precipitating stressors are elicited , the therapist should leave it and return to this area when they know more about the client 's past history , pre-morbid personality , and present situation . |
| 12 | Once again I have attracted the wrath of many supporters who think they know more about football than the eleven ‘ Stiffs ’ they profess to follow . |
| 13 | They know more about things . |
| 14 | Richard Dunwoody and Gordon Richards both reckon that this will be the one to beat and they know more about this race than most these days for both have a fine record in the big chase . |
| 15 | They know more about the human body and have proper Greek translations of Galen 's Art of Medicine and Hippocrates ’ Book of Symptoms . ’ |
| 16 | What do you feel about banks , do you think they know enough about business when it comes down to it . |
| 17 | A little later on , when all the relatives have gone home and the number of attentive friends at the time of the funeral has dwindled , it might be the time when the bereaved begin to reflect on their changed circumstances and try to evaluate how they feel both about themselves and the person who has died . |
| 18 | Erm it 's a they talk here about nominating a parent , a brother or sister , or a widow 's step-parents . |
| 19 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 20 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 21 | The Suisse Romande Orchestra may still not occupy a position among the top rank of world orchestras , but at least they sound as thought they care deeply about what they are doing , as do the combined Lausanne and Chambre Romand Choirs . ( ) |