Example sentences of "about [pron] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 2 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 3 | I can not imagine how on earth he even came to know about them because it was long before radio was introduced . |
| 4 | I 'm always a little bit worried about them because it seems to me that they almost define the syllabus in terms of what you can ask four reasonable questions in terms of alternatives about . |
| 5 | Both disrupt the rules and regulations of respectability , which was about nothing if it was not about controlling the social status of women . |
| 6 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 7 | People have that idea about me but it 's not so . |
| 8 | so is this right ? not , should we try avoiding we and talk about I cos it , if it 's we it might be somebody else you see |
| 9 | It may be the case — I hope it is — that Borg has always been a much happier man than he has seemed , and that his resumption of his old trade is more a matter of idle curiosity about himself than it is a neurotic search for lost identity . |
| 10 | Well we thought about one but it but we let it grow again because we just had n't the time . |
| 11 | You know , it 's much , it 's much easier to be nasty about something than it is to be nice about something . |
| 12 | He liked to have time to think what he was going to feel about something before it happened . |
| 13 | He glanced nervously about him but it was 2. a.m. and Dobson and the other yobs had long gone . |
| 14 | That period is to all intents and purposes part of the sentence , and he ought to know everything that is said about him before it is fixed . |
| 15 | And although Jesus himself remains to a significant degree elusive , it is as possible to deduce plausible information about him as it is to deduce such information about Arthur , or Robin Hood . |
| 16 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 17 | ‘ It does upset me seeing all the stories about her because it 's not a true picture of the real woman . |
| 18 | ‘ Why are you so worried about her if it 's only a minor op ? ’ |
| 19 | I do n't want you to talk about her if it hurts . |
| 20 | I suppose it was considered such a terrible thing to say about anyone that it had become a totally taboo concept — even for your worst enemy . |
| 21 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |
| 22 | Polly decided to do something about it before it smothered her . |
| 23 | Be pro-active and do something about it before it is mentioned . |
| 24 | Seddon knew more about the Ingard-Stavanger case than I did , because , being an ex-chief of the Fraud Squad , he 'd been consulted about it before it came to us , and had , in fact , directed the preliminary police inquiries . |
| 25 | If you try and arrange a meeting with a colleague or even a group of colleagues and he or they have already booked the time slot you want , you get to know about it before it 's too late . |
| 26 | If I 'd seen what was happening , had n't been quite so involved in my work , I could have done something about it before it was too late . ’ |
| 27 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 28 | But how d' ya feel about it once it 's repaired ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've heard about it but it is one of the sights my hosts have n't shown me . |
| 30 | Chauveau added : ‘ I know Peterborough are very upset about it but it does n't change the fact that one moron behind the goal ruined it for everybody . ’ |