Example sentences of "they about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 2 | I thought about writing a letter to The Times and telling them about an important man who beat up his children . |
| 3 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 4 | It is important for you to talk with them about AIDS , to explain the important facts and to answer any questions they may have . |
| 5 | So do n't hesitate to ask them about anything that may be worrying or puzzling you . |
| 6 | Security police snatched away members of the 1,000-strong march and beat them about the head with truncheons as the crowd chanted ‘ No violence ’ and ‘ We 're staying here ’ . |
| 7 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 8 | In another part of the city , near the Gethsemane church in the run-down Prenzlauer Berg district , police attacked a candlelit procession by about 1,000 young people , beating them about the head with truncheons , as the crowd chanted ‘ no violence ’ . |
| 9 | You get them round that way , and eventually you ask them about themselves , and you get round to it . |
| 10 | Taking the nine sources together , they scored best on informing electors about the issues ( 5.7 ) , slightly less well on informing them about personalities ( 5.4 ) , and Very much worse on helping them decide how to Vote ( 4.1 ) . |
| 11 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 12 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 13 | We were always having rows with them about the back garden , territorial disputes over 15-square-feet of packed mud covered in cat shit . |
| 14 | I knew they had a band because Malcolm would talk to them about it . |
| 15 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 16 | The problem is that if one of the projects you tell them about goes wrong , as inevitably it will , they 're inclined to hold it against you . |
| 17 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 18 | Later , at Reykjavik , I was chatting to somebody , telling them about the Ernir flights . |
| 19 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 20 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 21 | We complained to them about the target . |
| 22 | It is only in cases of the most violent attacks that parents get to know what has been happening because , as the girls told me ‘ we do n't like to worry them about it . |
| 23 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 24 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 25 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 26 | Upon return to their base the Captain disappears to the Ops Room to brief them about the incident , whilst his team once again prepare the equipment . |
| 27 | ‘ And — ’ to an approving nod from Omi she added , ‘ do n't say them about Mother and Father . |
| 28 | Even at formal dinners where weighty matters were being bandied about , he would seek out other young fathers to swap stories with them about the thrill and magic of childbirth . |
| 29 | Mr Muawad , a pro-Syrian Maronite Christian , met deputies in the village of Ehden in the Syrian-controlled north to consult them about forming a cabinet , due to be announced this week . |
| 30 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |