Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle . |
| 2 | The Bible does have quite a bit to say about Christians — all Christians — being witnesses for Jesus , BUT it does not have very much at all to say about the sort of ‘ Witnessing ’ being done by ‘ Damnation Derek ’ . |
| 3 | What makes you a bit disturbed about that ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm feeling a bit choked about it , ’ said Brundle . |
| 5 | There 's a bit to talk about there … we might have a little talk about industrial justice . |
| 6 | Maryon was getting a bit worried about him after an evening out in a restaurant : he had been getting behind with his alcohol intake so he decided to catch up . |
| 7 | She was usually a bit worried about her brothers . |
| 8 | He 's a bit worried about the Old Man . ’ |
| 9 | As a matter of fact , his solicitor is getting a bit worried about his silence . |
| 10 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 11 | And Rosie had replied in a sort of mumble , ‘ I 'm all right , Mrs Jones ; just a bit worried about my brother . |
| 12 | Jim Pike says he 's a bit worried about the snakes and spiders |
| 13 | I 'm getting a bit spooked about this exam now . |
| 14 | Leeds are still reeling from last week 's four-goal home mauling by Nottingham Forest and club captain Gordon Strachan said : ‘ I 've watched it on video and I 'm still a bit confused about what happened . |
| 15 | I 'm still a bit confused about erm sorry I should have brought this up at the time . |
| 16 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 17 | Major quietly or to you quietly in some back room and said , Look I 'm a bit bothered about this . |
| 18 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 19 | Each request for assessment will be ‘ screened ’ by an experienced member of staff and a decision made about the best type of assessment to be offered , by whom and when . |
| 20 | Friendships are important to young children but there is a change at the beginning of adolescence — a move to intimacy that includes the development of a more exclusive focus , a willingness to talk about oneself and to share problems and advice . |
| 21 | Where the buyer is well known and where , by his own remarks , the buyer indicates a willingness to talk about a more social matter , the salesperson will obviously follow . |
| 22 | Moreover , research in this context has demonstrated the existence of misleading stereotypes of the abilities of black workers , with images that are often contradictory as between employers , and which reflect a willingness to generalize about ethnic characteristic on the basis of very limited experience ( Lee and Wrench , 1983 ; Jenkins , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | When you 're buying a board think about what experience you 've had , where you 'll use the board , who else will use it and what level of skill you want to achieve . |
| 24 | Students have been staging a sit-in to protest about overcrowding at a polytechnic . |
| 25 | If a man perceives a necklace placed about his neck to be a noose , then he will expect to be hanged . |
| 26 | In the Spring issue of the magazine , a correspondent reminisced about the days when she collected for ‘ black babies ’ . |
| 27 | Branson did not need them to tell him the damage that could be done to the airline 's reputation by a story appearing about engine failure on the day before the inaugural flight . |
| 28 | Everyone has a story to tell about him . |
| 29 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 30 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |