Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | Where I talk about sites specific is to get down to this nitty gritty about which comes first , the erm inquiry or the erm planning consent . |
| 3 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 5 | It was not until years later that I heard about the societies known as Buffaloes and Foresters . |
| 6 | It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) . |
| 7 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 8 | she assumed that I knew about the abilities and feelings of humans and cats , about houses , territory , and the socially stereotyped roles of women and men . |
| 9 | And I said , ‘ Well , why did you read it , it 's hardly a secret that I write about sex . ’ |
| 10 | He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that . |
| 11 | It just completely changed everything that I thought about music . |
| 12 | ‘ The car was so badly crushed that I thought about asking the boss if he wanted it posting back . ’ |
| 13 | He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me … |
| 14 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 15 | I have nothing to add to the point that I made about the statement . |
| 16 | I will elaborate on the point that I made about the disruption that may be caused when additional tens of thousands of people are brought into the area , if the development at King 's Cross goes ahead . |
| 17 | And you could easy sit in there and in this big place that I speak about there was two sways |
| 18 | Indeed , now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever . |
| 19 | All that I know about insurance I have gleamed from courses such as this . |
| 20 | ‘ No pressure , but now that I know about Francisco it makes sense to leave them as soon as I find something suitable . ’ |
| 21 | I think that is actually something that I like about him , the fact that he left school early , that he did actually have to struggle . |
| 22 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 23 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
| 24 | Shostakovich obviously had good reason for these references , but they are to music so well-known that I worry about finding them in someone else 's piece , even a composer of the supreme integrity of Shostakovich . |
| 25 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
| 26 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 27 | I think I would be happy to be driven by her , which ism ore that I feel about some , these days . |
| 28 | Now that I think about it , very , very lucky indeed . |
| 29 | When you say that , there 's immediately a flood of records that I think about that are all so unbelievably unrelated to one another … ’ |
| 30 | Now that I think about it , his behaviour had been a little odd . |