Example sentences of "they [vb base] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mistakes which they make about factors which determine the limits of their jurisdiction render their decisions void . |
| 2 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 3 | I can see what they mean about women softening you up . |
| 4 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 5 | The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident . |
| 6 | I mean , the things they say about women when they think they 're alone , they 're just jokes are n't they ? |
| 7 | But turn a corner , walk a few yards , and suddenly you have stepped back centuries , to the old town , a place where it is sleepy quiet and easy to believe all they say about Aarau 's eventful past . |
| 8 | I wan na see what they say about Spurs after yesterday . |
| 9 | You know what they say about fools and their money … ’ |
| 10 | I happened to know — ‘ Is it true what they say about Dixie ? ’ . |
| 11 | This is what they say about housing : ’ Authorities also own and manage 4 million houses nationally . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's true what they say about pets taking after their owners , ’ the Doctor whispered to Bernice . |
| 14 | I mean that 's what they say about Julia that time were n't it ? |
| 15 | Mr Slater 's reaction to this soubriquet is characteristically sanguine : ‘ Thumper had big feet and you know what they say about men with big feet … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It must be true after all , what they say about Viking lovers ! ’ |
| 17 | The problem with their evolutionary sequence does not lie so much with what they say about technology as what they saw this technology as implying . |
| 18 | But you know what they say about patients falling in love with the nurses . |
| 19 | Look at what they say about Napoleon . ’ |
| 20 | And philosophers talk of ‘ sensations ’ in this connection because of views they hold about perception . |
| 21 | This is unbelievable , I thought , I 'm locked out of the country where I live , and they worry about litter . |
| 22 | Some managers loathe having individuals in their sides because they worry about personality clashes . |
| 23 | It means getting out on the road with the sales people before they complain about call schedules . |
| 24 | They fuss about fidelity . |
| 25 | The importance of the miracles is the teaching they give about Jesus to the modern Christian . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , a phase of male sexuality which is purportedly being portrayed with the result that female readers are frequently belittled and diminished as they read about girls who are at one and the same time both the object of male disgust and the arousers of male sexual interest . |
| 27 | Well , yeah , but I mean the stories they tell about fishing so they 're different stories |
| 28 | In it , he argues that women are free to be as nasty , rude , insulting and vicious as they like about men , but the reverse is not true . |
| 29 | All they know about Tweed is he 's supposed to be Chief Claims Investigator for an insurance company with a lot of business abroad . |
| 30 | They have learnt the convention of adopting a ‘ detached ’ role , of not indicating their own presence in a situation and of not acknowledging what they know about others . |