Example sentences of "about it [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polly decided to do something about it before it smothered her . |
| 2 | If you have a question about acting , think about it before you ask it . |
| 3 | What I want you to do is in your couples I want one of you to pretend that one of you 's got a grievance okay , think about it before you do it . |
| 4 | But they are not in a position to do anything about it unless they obey their conscience instead of the whip . |
| 5 | The issues became purely the military , the political and the humane problem of what you were going to do about it once you had it . ’ |
| 6 | And he said this and he was n't I mean particularly , he said oh she 's just , you know she , she 's like sailed through Haileybury , she gets out of everything , she , he , he 's really keen on the sports side of things here so I do n't know why he got so het up about it but he said it really er pissed him off the way she erm |
| 7 | Yeah well I do , I do n't , it 's not that I do n't talk to them about it but I mean I 'm pretty open with my mother and father |
| 8 | Yeah , so it 's up to Bev what she does about it but I mean I 'm bloody pissed off with it . |
| 9 | Well I do n't know anything about it but I think you ca n't be responsible for what your children do . |
| 10 | I could n't sleep or eat for thinking about it but I decided I was not going to be beaten by AIDS . ’ |
| 11 | And there used to be a a little croft croft there of long ago , and it 's er it 's all planted now with trees all round about it but I suppose they could still see where they used to be A black smith had stayed there . |
| 12 | It was Mrs Iverson who was telling us about it after he mentioned it . ’ |
| 13 | The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details . |
| 14 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 15 | In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’ |
| 16 | Did n't wan na tell anybody about it cos he knew they , they they could say well ca n't you organize things better than that ? |
| 17 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 18 | Striker Gary Bull said : ‘ I did n't know anything about it until I saw it on Ceefax . ’ |
| 19 | The superstar guitarist , still grieving over the loss of his son who fell from a Manhattan skyscraper , says : ‘ I do n't mind talking about it because it helps me get over what happened . |
| 20 | More like a volcano erupting than a steam engine blowing its top , Nick always said , but he was touchy about it because it made him sick the first time . |
| 21 | I think it 's I 'm not convinced about it because I think there 's s some people would , do n't , will not want it to be , to be involved in violence I , I would n't think . |
| 22 | Cobalt said wryly : ‘ Yes , and he only told me about it because I paid him . ’ |
| 23 | I told Stanley Kubrick ( his director in The Shining ) about it and we wrote it into the scene . |
| 24 | She told the other girls about it and they found his ignorance quaint and charming . |
| 25 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 26 | The thing , story in the Land Army magazine is about remembering the new recruited went out first day to go muck-spreading and she was going about it and she stuck her fork in and she landed flat on her face in a heap ! |
| 27 | But then we asked him a bit more about it and he made his fatal mistake . |
| 28 | I heard about it and he said it here as well |
| 29 | I was talking to Seb about it and he says he does eleven . |
| 30 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |