Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today they cared only about themselves . |
| 2 | Some regions and countries would have a comparative advantage , either because they were sparsely populated or because they cared less about the smell of a rubbish dump than their more pernickety neighbours did . |
| 3 | They argued ferociously about Ireland , although neither of them knew too much about it . |
| 4 | They argued contentedly about which saint emerged as the more attractive personality : St Benedict won on grounds of religious influence , St Luke on those of influence over secular life , because of his gospel . |
| 5 | They argued endlessly about it . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work . |
| 9 | chasing back to the local paper to the approximate time that we think they died see if they report enough about them . |
| 10 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |
| 11 | ‘ They found out about the damaged keg and had to repair it secretly ; that must be why the van was backed up to the freight car . ’ |
| 12 | How do you think they felt about the children 's adventures : a ) immediately afterwards b ) when they met Flupper c ) when they found out about super penicillin ? |
| 13 | He says the family are furious over the way they found out about her death . |
| 14 | They found out about the tip and that part of the site would be on land closeby . |
| 15 | Saturday — when the bomb went off — had been ‘ unbelievably painful ’ and when they found out about Tim they ‘ did n't think he would live the night ’ . |
| 16 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 17 | They prattle on about equality , when really what they mean is a down-grading of women 's rights . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 20 | Ask children what they line best about the school . |
| 21 | They worry also about the possibility that war could spill out into the so-far peaceful bits of the Balkan neighbourhood ( see below ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That 's for that other dodgy board did they ring up about |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | So , next time you talk to your stringer , check out they know more about their job than you do . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They know more about things . |
| 30 | 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 . |