Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got asked about it for months . |
| 2 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 3 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 4 | The agents of the Crown consequently became disillusioned about the New Forest as a Crown asset : it barely escaped the fate of the other royal forests . |
| 5 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 6 | Oh , admittedly the novels are n't available there , but people got to know about it and wondered how she had the nerve to reveal it . |
| 7 | Put the board up , too , by all means — yes , it 's quite all right ; such things are not prohibited in Catkin Lane — but the handbills would ensure that everybody got to know about you . |
| 8 | Anyway , the clergyman who came to look after those who were C of E got to know about Grandma 's skill as a sewer and also knew that a little bit of extra money would be welcome in her household . |
| 9 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 10 | ‘ Sir , you know we do , though how you got to know about them I ca n't imagine . ’ |
| 11 | When I came over here I got to know about Kyrle Hall [ a Birmingham amateur club ] and went along there with my pumps and shorts and that was my introduction to boxing really . |
| 12 | Well I got to know about them when I first got married , when I was in the back street , you know in the terraces . |
| 13 | People just got to know about her . |
| 14 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 15 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 16 | Oh Barbara phoned to see about woodcraft , she said Steve had , or well either her or Steve 'd take them . |
| 17 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 18 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 19 | Hemingway claimed that he always stopped writing about noon , when he knew what was coming next . |
| 20 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 21 | My aunts , of course , thought her life had been tragic , and , because they were sorry for her , curbed their natural tartness and tried to talk about what interested her . |
| 22 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 23 | I wanted to join up , like you — I even tried lying about my age , but I did n't have any luck . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , as Hazel turned the point and stopped to look about him , he could see the place where Cowslip must have come out . |
| 25 | This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband . |
| 26 | He stopped fretting about his life and about the future , about what was good or bad in it . |
| 27 | Fiona tried to negotiate about wages in lieu of notice . |
| 28 | ‘ Speaking of manners , ’ Belinda herself put in suddenly , in a rather small but very firm voice , ‘ I think it would be polite if you both stopped speaking about me as if I was n't here ! ’ |
| 29 | He pretended to grumble about it , but privately he enjoyed the early-morning outing across the Island to West Ferry Road and back again . |
| 30 | I tried to forget about it and to go about my routine day as usual . |