Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , Joan is merely checking with Carol about potentially shared information : whether Carol knows " Johnny " . |
| 2 | ‘ Six-year-olds are n't exactly brimming with curiosity about gays and lesbians — or sexuality in general . |
| 3 | His face seemed to be divided into two : the bottom half was all smiling and pleased to see me , the top half was frowning with anxiety about the dinner . |
| 4 | Bicker was conferring with Tagan about the way to the north . |
| 5 | This is what , out of consideration for me , you are now surrounding with talk about whether and how and why . |
| 6 | Labourer Jamie Gorrie , 20 , of Horndean , Hants , had been helping with inquiries about his 15-year-old sister , who died 19 days ago . |
| 7 | Back in the summer of 1993 , the City is seething with unhappiness about the latest proposals from the Government and the Stock Exchange on the disclosure of price sensitive information by quoted companies . |
| 8 | He found the Greek churches of Egypt , Palestine , Syria , and Asia Minor seething with controversy about the opinions of an Alexandrian priest named Arius . |
| 9 | Besides disagreeing with Descartes about the exact constitution of our idea of mind , Locke also disagreed with the claim that we know the real nature of mind . |
| 10 | Until then I was broke and Ted was left at home reminiscing with Mum about the war and trying to stop Jean from drinking . |
| 11 | The answer may turn out to be that the main results of university education for which intrinsic value can reasonably be claimed — such as the activity of critical thought — are included as main elements in the educational process itself , so that it is pointless to go on putting essential questions off by starting with questions about the value of the results of an Arts education . |
| 12 | He particularly disliked parting with information about the house . |
| 13 | In Aristophanes ' play The Clouds Strepsiades is debating with Socrates about the causes of thunder , rain and other meteorological events . |
| 14 | Until the sudden realisation that the world 's best kept secret was about to be broken , Ashe , because of special affinity with Yannick Noah and his own long run as the United States Davis Cup captain , had probably been reading with interest about the rise and fall of Noah as captain of the French Davis Cup Team . |
| 15 | The canteen , a gloomy area in the basement , was buzzing with talk about Steinmark . |
| 16 | Dealing with questions about age — older candidates |
| 17 | Dealing with questions about age — younger candidates |
| 18 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 19 | Much of Leith 's discussions are difficult to follow because he never makes clear , in dealing with doubts about neo-Darwinism , what are really unwarrantable , what are due to muddle , what arise only from practical difficulties in actual research , and what are real doubts of principle . |
| 20 | Though the standard approach to agoraphobia is an overtly behavioural one of graded exposure , many of the aspects of exposure that used to be described as ‘ non-specific ’ , such as arriving at a realistic interpretation of the week 's events , or at accurate expectations for the future , or dealing with reservations about treatment , are now described in cognitive terms . |
| 21 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
| 22 | The SIB is concerned that the failures reveal a more general lack of market awareness and scepticism in dealing with information about transactions and in monitoring returns . |
| 23 | Erm but if you 're dealing with issues about human relationship then they 're very very important , very powerful and er they they can make a huge difference familiarity , sensitivity in the use of this kind of can be very important Okay , we 'll come back to that cos I w when we come when we 're actually looking at improving communication we 'll come back to those issues . |
| 24 | Talking with students about their personal reading , I was reminded of the school library 's role in extending interests and opening up new ideas and experiences . |
| 25 | Some patients experience difficulty when talking with nurses about activities such as eliminating and expressing sexuality . |
| 26 | Already Chelsea fans are talking with conviction about the club winning the championship for only the second time in its history . |
| 27 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 28 | Zuccarelli is talking with manufacturers about licensing his invention for new hi-fi systems . |
| 29 | The fact that Peter heard God 's voice about one thing does not stop him arguing with Jesus about the next , namely Jesus ' intention to go to the cross . |
| 30 | He was arguing with Lucie about the lost tributes of Pontydd . |