Example sentences of "[verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a year or so of disappointment , my Dad gently explained about air waves , and I reasoned that if Dick Barton could send his voice through the air waves , God certainly could . |
| 2 | Prof Eno took us aside and explained about mummy rabbits and daddy rabbits . |
| 3 | My solicitor and barrister came and saw me , and explained about parole and remission , and told me there was no point in appealing . |
| 4 | If you feel constantly anxious and frightened about food , if you can not take pleasure in eating or in your body , if you know deep down that something is wrong , then it is irrelevant what you weigh or whether your immediate health is at risk ; you should take yourself and your feelings seriously , and look for help . |
| 5 | ‘ I WOULD LIKE TO TRY BONDAGE BUT I DO N'T KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT IT . ’ |
| 6 | This difference is emphasized when one examines how Porter proposes to go about cost reduction . |
| 7 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 8 | He further indicated how the Department hopes to go about restructuring . |
| 9 | This is what I hate about politics , it 's just . |
| 10 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 11 | As you seem to know about knights , how come you have n't heard about chivalry ? |
| 12 | DURING PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE WEEK 1990 , SECOND YEAR PUPILS OF PEEBLES HIGH SCHOOL HEARD ABOUT AMNESTY 'S LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN FROM THEIR LOCAL AMNESTY GROUP . |
| 13 | Little is heard about policy effects or outcomes . |
| 14 | ‘ I had heard about Smailovic and his Sarajevan Opera String Quartet some time ago and had the idea of offering him support by writing a piece and joining him in one of his concerts at the front line . ’ |
| 15 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 16 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 17 | Peter White , this instability could result as people have been warning in Civil War , that we 've already heard about venturism being er , suggested by the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin it , he might try to change the boundaries of the Soviet Republics . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've heard about Industry Year , Vic ? ’ |
| 19 | I feel erm personally when I was younger that I was taught about love long before I feel in love sort of idea you know comics , the old movies , gave us expectations about what love was all about and I felt that had a , has a big influence in how yeah , when you grow up you feel , you meet this man and |
| 20 | ‘ Parents who do n't want their kids taught about homosexuality in the first grade are not bigots . |
| 21 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 22 | Almond and Verba found that having been taught about government increases a sense of subjective political competence . |
| 23 | The Pope urges that students in seminaries should be taught about sex in seminaries . |
| 24 | But is it really a good idea that students should be taught about sex in seminaries ? |
| 25 | The boy is taught about family , clan and tribal lands , and their boundaries are carefully pointed out to him . |
| 26 | We were taught about hand grenades and explosives , and how to set ambushes and lay mines in the most effective pattern . |
| 27 | Ignorance is no plea in law , so people have to be taught about safety while travelling , and encouraged to develop a positive attitude and strict self-discipline in relation to prevention of accidents . |
| 28 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 29 | When children are taught about democracy , this is what is meant . |
| 30 | School children should be taught about health care . |