Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 2 | When you are ready , gently come back to the room and write down what the exercise revealed about your way-of-seeing the world . |
| 3 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 4 | Despite her weightiness , Mrs Beavis got about her house like a two-year-old . |
| 5 | Doubtless even the Vikings ( after sailing , raping and pillaging all summer ) got about their own snowy land on useful planks of wood . |
| 6 | A few petals still clung about his sleeves , caught in the rough weave . |
| 7 | He spoke so reasonably , so casually , that she could almost imagine he cared about her feelings . |
| 8 | He cared about her pleasure and she responded to him more strongly than she had with anyone . |
| 9 | Dent has been called a " chocolate-box village " by some writers who have assumed that the preservation of the village is due to the action of the green welly and Barbour jacket brigade ( 2.4 children called Timon and Amarintha , Range Rover with macramé or tie-dye seatcovers and this year 's Booker Prize winner on the back seat ) , but the fight to prevent the cobbles being ripped up and the narrow bridges widened was led , not by middle-class " off-comed-uns " , but by the Dalesfolk , the farmers , joiners and builders , the ordinary people who cared about their dale . |
| 10 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to show that we cared about their predicament and wished to conduct a genial and mutually satisfying transaction , and I thought the head of the company bothering to put in an appearance might do that . ’ |
| 12 | But in his relief at having finished the play he scarcely cared about its imperfections . |
| 13 | ‘ But I thought you only cared about your art , ’ said Lord Henry . |
| 14 | Robin-Anne nodded very earnestly as though she truly cared about my opinion , but her next question showed that she was paying no attention to my inanities . |
| 15 | You can tell I really cared about my hair and how I looked — I was so together ! |
| 16 | You make it sound as though you cared about my welfare ! ’ |
| 17 | I care the way Jefferson cared about his rats and their portal shunts . |
| 18 | He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and , when awake , just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement . |
| 19 | Tiny clouds swirled about his legs as he walked . |
| 20 | Within days of the outbreak of war , prominent Arab-Americans were being visited by the FBI and asked about their knowledge of international terrorism . |
| 21 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 22 | Pupils may be asked directly to describe a rule for predicting how many matches would be needed for any number of boxes , or they may instead be asked how many would be needed for , say , 500 boxes and then asked about their methods as referred to below . |
| 23 | She spoke rationally to them and asked about their families , but during the night she died in her sleep . |
| 24 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 25 | As Claire was breast-feeding , her doctor asked about her diet and found that she was a vegetarian . |
| 26 | I asked about her daughter and her son and husband . |
| 27 | I asked about her work before she married . |
| 28 | There was some long-time-not-see and he asked about her mother . |
| 29 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 30 | The old man asked about her job ; in exchange he told her a little about himself . |