Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already said how little I knew about cancer , and I now began to brush up on it . |
| 2 | And she needs to be told what little I know about what 's going on here . |
| 3 | But er at the same time the further I go on , the more apprehensive I get about it . |
| 4 | The further we got into basic training the more obsessive I got about it . |
| 5 | A good example of that that I read about it was the naturalist who was making a study of snakes . |
| 6 | After that I forgot about seeing Tavett and did n't remember until I was leaving the building . |
| 7 | So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the . |
| 8 | ‘ What 's this I hear about you selling firewood ? ’ the man demanded . |
| 9 | ‘ Now what 's this I hear about this madman driving an Irish Ford ? ’ |
| 10 | By the way , ’ he added in a knowing manner , ‘ what 's all this I hear about there being no gravity on the Moon ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 13 | And I 've really just put it up erm because erm this is a complicated story but , one does want to be careful I think about seeing the sides as too neat . |
| 14 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid I lied about her age to the stud farm . |
| 16 | When the Cleveland affair was in the news in 1987/88 I wrote about becoming a father , which was the most wonderful experience — I felt completely liberated by it ; and then I was being told that all men were potential child abusers because they were so emotionally retarded . |
| 17 | And everyone was quite fearful I think about whether sort of outside influences were gon na sort of introduce erm you know race riots inverted commas commas into the area . |
| 18 | I wanted you to know how important you are ; how much I care about you — value you ; and … . ’ her voice quivered and stopped , but then she took another breath and finished her declaration steadily enough : ‘ and how much I want you . ’ |
| 19 | You know , when I was bringing up my children in the early seventies I read about the the mergence of the new working woman , you know , how to balance a career and a home and children , and I could n't for the life of me think what was new about this working woman ! |
| 20 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 21 | But the only thing awkward I suppose about that is the fact you 've got to erm carry it around . |
| 22 | But the only thing awkward I suppose about that is the fact you 've got to erm , carry it around . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's all I know about the situation down there , ’ Talbot said , ‘ and heaven knows it 's little enough . |
| 24 | front runner erm but I mean er all I know about from the NUPE point of view is that since the kind of can we call it , semi , semi de-recognition ? |
| 25 | That 's all I know about him . ’ |
| 26 | Squire Trelawney , Dr Livesey , and the others have asked me to write down all I know about Treasure Island . |
| 27 | That 's all I know about . |
| 28 | And if anybody ever catches up with me and starts asking questions , that 's all I know about it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I told you all I know about it . ’ |
| 30 | We corresponded , and he taught me almost all I know about the conductivity of electricity and its effect on those bodies through which it passes . |