Example sentences of "about at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is possible that the Dostoevsky scholar whose book prompted Bayley 's comment might not have understood it — how could an acknowledged great novel , worth writing about at length , be said not to ‘ come off ’ ? |
| 2 | A former probation officer , she blames the way professionals are trained to see the criminal as the main concern , with justice for the victim — if thought about at all — regarded as an optional extra . |
| 3 | ‘ But all I 'm concerned about at the moment is that we do enough against City to make sure we can go to Wembley at the weekend knowing we ca n't be overtaken again by Leeds on Saturday . ’ |
| 4 | I am probably the only person around who is enthusiastic about At Play in the Fields of the Lord . |
| 5 | There was very little painting work about at present so music and plastering were currently his major occupations . |
| 6 | Not something I want to talk about at this moment . |
| 7 | Their topics of conversation seemed very limited compared to what we talked about at home . |
| 8 | something I am reading or thinking about at present that I would like to remember . |
| 9 | His hair came right down over his face but his eyes gleamed through it , and when he saw me he grinned a wide toothy grin , like one of those gibbons Vern was so neurotic about at the zoo . |
| 10 | Because the theme of betrayal figures so often in fable , myth and legend throughout all cultures , it seems that it is something we must all know about at one level or another and need to have formalized in story form . |
| 11 | Q : What about at dog shows where lots of youngsters handle dogs ? |
| 12 | ‘ What was that mysterious place you were talking about at Aunt Nance 's ? ’ |
| 13 | Changing career is something that most people think about at one time or another , but comparatively few actually take the plunge — let alone sign up as full-time mature students . |
| 14 | ‘ You see , many of the accounting issues people talk about at IASC or outside Japan are new to me , ’ he jokes . |
| 15 | ‘ Two years ago manufacturers were talking about at least £16,000 for a unit ; now it 's down to below £10,000 . ’ |
| 16 | They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually . |
| 17 | Whatever anyone says about muggings and suchlike up here , there 'd be no one about at all in the back of beyond . |
| 18 | ‘ What about at school ? ’ |
| 19 | What did they talk about at lunch ? |
| 20 | You 'd be amazed the things people want you to talk about at lectures ! |
| 21 | Ideally , you should start thinking about at least some of these points , especially those that relate to your pension and to any savings or investment plans , five or even ten years before you retire . |
| 22 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 23 | It seemed a funny thing to bother about at the moment . |
| 24 | He had frequently encouraged others to doss down simply because , as he admitted , he could not bear what he thought about at night . |
| 25 | That 's all they 've talked about at work , you know . ’ |
| 26 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 27 | In contrast to our previous example we shall now investigate a cylindrical beam consisting of two kinds of charge carriers : negative electrons and some positive particles , which I do not wish to be more precise about at the moment . |
| 28 | However , a more careful analysis of methods of work and recreation in the Easter vac helped me to overcome these problems and be more in charge of myself , rather than being tossed about at random . |
| 29 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 30 | I mean i in your experience is it something that you talk about at all with with with men ? |