Example sentences of "[vb past] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Forres that morning , Johnson and Boswell argued about evil . |
| 2 | Goods were cheap , so who cared about service ? |
| 3 | Not that Alice cared about warmth , not even after four years in her mother 's warm house . |
| 4 | If these people wanted to d if these people wanted to c and they really cared about conservation and education they 'd do what the care for the wild have done . |
| 5 | But nobody else in Seoul cared about trade links when they could focus all their attention on the crumbling marriage of the warring Waleses . |
| 6 | So we agreed about tea , and invited Father D'Arcy to join us . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North asked about prescription charges and whether sufferers from Parkinson 's disease should be exempt from them . |
| 8 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 9 | We asked about music , we asked about food , we asked about holidays , we asked family , we asked about , what was Ja , Mandy 's questions to you Jane ? |
| 10 | JF asked about possibility of using these systems for printing Garden plans . |
| 11 | Duncan asked about UNISON . |
| 12 | About four years ago , while negotiating a new house insurance , I asked about coverage of my wife 's knitting machines while in transit to and from evening classes . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not ask them about you , I asked about Jeopardy . ’ |
| 14 | Mr asked about traffic calming on new roads . |
| 15 | He started to speak but Jorge came in and asked about dinner and Maggie slipped out . |
| 16 | It answers some of the questions commonly asked about meningitis . |
| 17 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 18 | Bodo asked about the building trade in West Germany , Herr Nordern about economic planning , Frau Nordern was curious about the social welfare services , and Paul asked about rock and roll , about which Karl modestly denied all knowledge . |
| 19 | He asked about parish organizations as well , did n't he ? |
| 20 | I asked about murder . |
| 21 | The Head of Department asked about group size and who had provided the paints ( the parents had ) and whether the parents at this school would . |
| 22 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 23 | We asked about music , we asked about food , we asked about holidays , we asked family , we asked about , what was Ja , Mandy 's questions to you Jane ? |
| 24 | Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums . |
| 25 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 26 | It cooed about sewage treatment , environmental improvements and coastal waters . |
| 27 | Because it was that point that erm David Berlow made about howthe Condensed Century was done , where he took the Torino serifs and put them on . |
| 28 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 29 | To complete a bad day , Souness has had an FA warning following remarks he made about referee Stephen Lodge after the goalless draw with Southampton at Anfield last February . |
| 30 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |