Example sentences of "[adj] about it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The press have been decent about it for years ; even the Opposition has n't suggested that his attitudes affected my credibility or my wife 's . |
| 2 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 3 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 4 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |
| 5 | You 've been worrying about it for years . |
| 6 | You 're too determined — too single-minded about it for that . |
| 7 | ‘ There was nothing special about it for me , ’ said Hirst , the subject of a £3.5 million bid by United . |