Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might be worth just thinking about that for me , actually , have a a future negotiation . |
| 2 | It is worth just noting about it , totting up what we 've voted to spend , |
| 3 | At the moment you 're cre , you 're cor , , you 're correcting your procedures on the basis of auditing and finding out what we 're not doing instead of really thinking about them . |
| 4 | Through marriage he created the possibility of consciously knowing about and coming to terms with his own painful experience of loss . |
| 5 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I thought about it but I decided that the family had enough to put up with without learning about me . |
| 7 | It 's a constant challenge that I 'm centuries away from even thinking about mastering , but it 's definitely presented me with a universe of what 's out there left to do . |
| 8 | ‘ In our research , we found disabled people were being discouraged from even thinking about setting up in business , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Every day I have the Heads of other Departments in here bellyaching about lack of resources , asking for replacements or new appointments . |
| 10 | Coming in here talking about voodoo ! |
| 11 | When Brazil beat Italy 4-1 in the final of the 1970 World Cup the style of their triumph was a cry of defiance against the organisation men , the managers and coaches who insisted on getting things right in defence before even thinking about the imaginative attacking play which should be the game 's apotheosis at this level . |
| 12 | Decide on what core units you 're going to have before even thinking about the rest of your army . |
| 13 | Something one does without properly thinking about because it helps a friend out . |
| 14 | She never walked on the beach , and without ever thinking about it he had assumed she did n't because she did n't want to spoil her shoes . |
| 15 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 16 | In every day life we group things into sets without really thinking about it , to find some kind of order , or pattern which will help us to arrange and organise what we have to do . |
| 17 | He sat on the edge of her desk , watching as she tidied it without really thinking about what she was doing . |
| 18 | Brutus again talks of Caesar 's authority becoming corrupt because of using it without really thinking about the consequences . |
| 19 | Now you might say perhaps , without really thinking about it , well if he 's got any sense he wo n't have a lot of fe , faith in me because I am , I am a great failure , I 've let him down . |
| 20 | I 'm surprised how clever people are , walking without even thinking about it . |
| 21 | I 'm a social smoker but I can go for months at a time without even thinking about it . |
| 22 | It seems that many people , perhaps without even thinking about it , would rather do down the other player than cooperate with the other player to do down the banker . |
| 23 | So because many elderly people ca n't see or hear very well , they may be missing information which the rest of us see and take in without even thinking about it . |
| 24 | Body language talks without words , and we usually respond without even thinking about it . |
| 25 | Very simple thing to do and something you possibly would do without even thinking about it . |
| 26 | On Tuesday morning Troy got up and , without even thinking about Bathsheba , went straight to the churchyard to find the position of Fanny 's grave . |
| 27 | He knew without even thinking about it consciously that she had no bottom worth worrying about . |
| 28 | I found myself just doing things without even thinking about them — my fingers seemed to work away on their own . |
| 29 | You can use drama without specifically teaching about dramatic forms ( although in using drama as a learning medium , you can not help but make use of dramatic forms ) , but you ca n't effectively teach anything about the nature of dramatic forms without some sort of content . |
| 30 | Furthermore , it is not possible to talk about the " type " of thing substance is without actually talking about the substance itself , for substance is by definition one , and any suggestion that there might be different specimens of it is incoherent . |