Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [pron] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 2 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 3 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 4 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 5 | Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers . |
| 6 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 7 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 8 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 9 | Is not the truth of the matter not only that the Secretary of State is doing nothing about the housing needs of the service men and women who will be made redundant , but that he does not even know the facts ? |
| 10 | Mr Timothy 's telling me about a gypsy girl he and Andrew Manners met today . |
| 11 | The young man was asking her about the room , about his chances of getting it , she suddenly heard . |
| 12 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 13 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 14 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 15 | Rutherford was muttering something about a by-pass always changing a country community , as if he felt the need to apologise for the place . |
| 16 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 17 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |