Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By entering the Archbishop 's service you will have the advantage of being nearer Munich , which you can reach in eighteen hours , where we can hear about everything … and whence Herr Weber and his daughter can visit us and even stay with us . |
| 2 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 3 | ‘ Which is more than I can say about you ! ’ |
| 4 | You 've asked me , so I 'll talk about it … it 's annoying , but its interesting , and , yes , that early part of my life was very important , and those early experiences were very dangerous . |
| 5 | There 's nobody in my house except me tonight , so nobody will know about your visit . ’ |
| 6 | She could n't bear to remember the dreadful things she had said that day , any more than she could think about what was happening to Maggie now . |
| 7 | Resolutely , and determined to think no more than she could help about it , she opened her new copy of the Church Times which normally she would have looked forward to reading on her journey home . |
| 8 | I 've forgotten it happened , ’ she lied , ‘ so you can forget about it also . ’ |
| 9 | It is considerably harder to characterise the form of exchange at a local level , although we may hypothesise about its nature on the basis of the organisation viewed through alternative forms of evidence . |
| 10 | We can know far more about a fictional character than we can about another human , even more than we can know about ourselves . |
| 11 | I wish Marie was here so we could talk about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Which is more than they 'll say about you , Daak . |
| 13 | Now she wants him home so they can talk about their ‘ big wedding ’ . |
| 14 | Charles wanted the farmers to talk frankly to him so he could learn about their lives and problems , and put what he learnt to good effect . |
| 15 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 16 | ( a ) ‘ If I can talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to be delayed . |
| 17 | So if you can think about it like laterally but we gon na have to work out an argument |
| 18 | ‘ It 's worth it , ’ he said to me once , ‘ if you can write about it . ’ |
| 19 | Er If you could think about your experience of buying stamps of buying stamps and other items , to collect from the main counter of your Post Office . |
| 20 | I 'd be grateful if you 'd think about my offer seriously and — ’ dark brown eyes snared hers ‘ — remember that nothing less than winning ever did satisfy me . ’ |
| 21 | I still ca n't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it , and I would feel better , I think , if we could talk about what you said when I visited you . |
| 22 | ‘ She was murdered before she could talk about it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Guineas , ’ Rogers said rapidly , before he could think about it . |