Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] about " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | And I said , ‘ Well , why did you read it , it 's hardly a secret that I write about sex . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | And you could easy sit in there and in this big place that I speak about there was two sways |
6 | Indeed , now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever . |
7 | All that I know about insurance I have gleamed from courses such as this . |
8 | ‘ No pressure , but now that I know about Francisco it makes sense to leave them as soon as I find something suitable . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She has go to bad that I worry about my fingers when I carry out water changes . |
14 | I think I would be happy to be driven by her , which ism ore that I feel about some , these days . |
15 | Now that I think about it , very , very lucky indeed . |
16 | When you say that , there 's immediately a flood of records that I think about that are all so unbelievably unrelated to one another … ’ |
17 | Now that I think about it , his behaviour had been a little odd . |
18 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
19 | ‘ Now that I think about it , back home Prince is either the name of a rock singer — or a dog , ’ Caroline said slowly . |
20 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
21 | Indeed one of the great worries that I have about life in general is the lack of growth which so may of our admirable people , particularly those who have not achieved educational qualifications , actually manage during their working lives . |
22 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
23 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
24 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
25 | and I go about every eight weeks I think |
26 | He weighs 20 stone , and I worry about him being so overweight . |
27 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
28 | In our marriage George worries about money and I worry about everything else . |
29 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
30 | the , this , this is just one aspect of , of my writing and I write about all sorts of things and erm , erm the shows that I do , we use two artists that 's erm , I , I 've written erm two , two poems about erm , er Darren and , and erm Stanley er you you 've heard |