Example sentences of "[vb past] about these " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 2 | Indeed , a soft conventionalist would be able to deny that there were gaps even if lawyers disagreed about these abstract conventions , even if many lawyers denied that statutes make law or that precedents exert some influence over later decisions . |
| 3 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 4 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 5 | you talked about these erm these statements , these bonuses |
| 6 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 7 | The carers were asked how they felt about these problems , and whether any were difficult to cope with . |
| 8 | The first Ramsey knew about these discussions between Fisher and the prime minister was when a letter arrived in Durham on 8 December 1955 . |
| 9 | Marc Bolan , who knew about these things , said it best : ‘ pop should be a spell . ’ |
| 10 | Sweetheart knew about these things . |
| 11 | Sweetheart knew about these things . |
| 12 | She could have asked Dorothy of course , Dorothy knew about these things , but she could n't face the look of exasperation she knew she 'd get , the telling-off . |
| 13 | You see , you 'd think I knew about these things would n't you , you 'd think I knew |
| 14 | ‘ It 's OK now , ’ said Constance , who knew about these things . |
| 15 | Someone who knew about these things had told Maman how the perpetual wearing of boots might encourage the proper shape of a girl 's ankles . |
| 16 | ( Oh , I knew about these . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's time you thought about these matters . ’ |
| 18 | At the time both critics and audiences were fairly certain that what they liked about these films was their wit , their tempo , their sensational hints of violence and sex , their authentic urban feel , and the utterly realistic acting . |
| 19 | This particular comment was too good to be kept secret and so did the rounds of Parisian society , but in general what everyone remembered about these gala occasions was the sheer splendour of it all , to which the guests themselves contributed by the richness of their uniforms or , in the case of civilians , the elegance of the men and the style of the women . |
| 20 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
| 21 | ‘ He complained about these cavortings and his temper snapped . ’ |
| 22 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 23 | you wrote about these |
| 24 | Commenting on a considerable drop in sales at a book fair , one experienced bookman wrote about these travel books : ‘ That such a range of books which I find boring beyond belief — I prefer to call them non-books — was due for a shake-out , appeared inevitable to me . ’ |
| 25 | I wrote about these controls last month . |
| 26 | I wondered about these changes as we rode towards the house . |