Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howard has entirely forgotten about it . |
| 2 | Erm Nick has obviously talked about the er , the phasing of the estate erm , just to point out that the reason for it , perhaps seeming a bit of long drawn out er affair , it 's , it 's a , a minimum time as far as erm , all the people who have been negotiating feel it 's achievable in if we are to make sure that the estate does n't remain a building site as as a as a total entity fo , at any time , so this site here will not commence until this site is completed so that there will be some er , rest bite for the bungalow residents and of course , somewhere to park their cars in the in the interim . |
| 3 | Tomorrow 's OCC systems will combine video , sound , and graphics in a generation of computers the business world has only dreamed about . |
| 4 | Mr has just phoned about all this work and as , he 's saying |
| 5 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 6 | May I endorse most vigorously what my hon. Friend has just said about the benefits of NHS trusts operating within the health service . |
| 7 | I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has just said about the vile allegations and lies against my hon. and learned Friend — I use both words advisedly — the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) . |
| 8 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 9 | And it does seem to me that erm the minute you suggest to a Parish Council who has already complained about illegal encampments on roadsides and laybys that there is a good site in their patch , there is an immediate reaction , and I am thoroughly convinced that this reaction is based on a fear that is actually based on ignorance , and that we have to remember that travellers of any description — and I do n't categorise them like Peter does — travellers of any description are human beings . |
| 10 | Michael Burr ( West of Scotland Agricultural College ) in his Report ( September 1982 ) on Tourism and Farming in the French Alps has already written about this subject in detail . |
| 11 | Paul has already written about the glory of God in his letter to the Ephesian church . |
| 12 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 13 | Something very similar is found in L'Esquiriel , in which the boy 's figurative euphemisms — squirrel , nest , eggs — are not simply comic as signifiers of " real " objects — penis , scrotum or pubic hair , testicles — but as signifiers of the sort of language that the girl has already talked about — vit , coilles , etc. — but is discouraged from using . |
| 14 | But I have already warned you to be on your guard against anything that any anthropologist has ever written about kinship terminologies , so I will not pursue the matter here . |
| 15 | As almost every woman who has ever complained about jokes against women has been told , ‘ Where 's your sense of humour ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ No designer has ever complained about me . ’ |
| 17 | Tomorrow , I shall make her eat , on toast and with ketchup , every word she has ever said about the men of the New World . |
| 18 | If Niki the man slips through this net of approbation , much of the fault must rest with his own capacity to mythologize , his utter disrespect for those who seek to read his mind and the kinds of people he has always kept about him , like court jesters , to keep his market value high . |
| 19 | It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep 's eyes . |
| 20 | This government has repeatedly talked about ‘ giving the unions back to their members . ’ |
| 21 | Oman has also complained about the presence of Soviet naval vessels and aircraft in the vicinity of the Straits of Hormuz . |
| 22 | A row has also erupted about sending people to Mozambique . |
| 23 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 24 | Mr Franco has often complained about the short-term speculation attracted by Brazil 's high interest rates . |
| 25 | After what he has now said about a referendum , he had better watch out . |
| 26 | Iago only ever talks about destroying Othello and Desdemona , has even forgotten about his own career , and Othello takes over his obsessions . |
| 27 | If this is the case , and he has then asked about Cantona and been given the nod , he has still done well . |
| 28 | But in this instance , comrade Preobrazhensky has completely forgotten about this fundamental methodological demand of Marxism . |
| 29 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has recently received about manufacturing output . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has recently received about the governance of Scotland ; and if he will make a statement . |