Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 2 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 3 | Sometimes seditious speeches complained about the various injustices suffered under William , reflecting a Country Jacobite position . |
| 4 | For example , each side said about the other side : |
| 5 | Hornbeam moved as smoothly as a snake , creeper twisted , ivy writhed about the mossy bark , reaching towards her , its soft and furry touch tickling as it wound about her skin . |
| 6 | When Giles heard about the out-of-date map in the dead man 's pocket , he was very excited . |
| 7 | On his early records , Waits sang about the boozy netherworld of urban America with a whisky-soaked , tobacco-stained voice that seemed to grow craggier with each release . |
| 8 | North Tyneside complained about the low status given to North Shields shopping centre . |
| 9 | The women who had this type of machine complained about the considerable amount of work still required of the housewife , and the mess on the kitchen floor to be cleared up afterwards . |
| 10 | General Giap had about the same number of soldiers , but these were reinforced by para-military elements . |
| 11 | The Sunday Express speculated about the next primate and thought that Ramsey probably ruled himself out by his partisan behaviour in attending the eucharistic congress . |
| 12 | Valerie Dundas-Grant worried about the repeated air raids on her home area , and felt guilty at not being herself involved in the war effort . |
| 13 | Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period . |
| 14 | Shielding the flame carefully from the draught sweeping in through the open door , Isabel glanced about the single room . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate 's previous work . |
| 16 | In the snail darter case the justices of the Supreme Court argued about the proper way to read the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 17 | Stories started about the unsafe state of Ribblehead viaduct ; it was another case of closure by stealth . |
| 18 | All Paris talked about the new Margarita in Faust , the girl with the beautiful voice , the girl with the voice of an angel . |
| 19 | Each evening there were General Meetings , in the Philharmonic Hall or St George 's Hall : at one the President , Lord Harrowby , gave an address ; at another , Owen talked about the anthropoid apes ; and one evening Edward Sabine talked about terrestrial magnetism . |
| 20 | I endorse what my hon. Friend said about the excellent efforts of the Glasgow Evening Times in drawing the matter to our attention . |
| 21 | There were close Manchester links , Morrissey and Gedge wrote about the real world ( in very different styles ) and the basic mental line-up was virtually the same . |
| 22 | Professional families in Liverpool had about the same age at death as labourers in Wiltshire ( table 2.2 ) . |
| 23 | Marcus thought about the previous night . |
| 24 | Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line . |
| 25 | When the big night finally arrived , New York 's all-powerful theatre critics raved about the acting performances , but the play soon became , literally , a pain in the neck for its star . |
| 26 | That night in the library of his house , Leithen talked about the seventeenth century . |
| 27 | I fully share the concern felt about the dastardly acts in Ulster and the United Kingdom as a whole , but I ask hon. Members to keep their questions brief . |
| 28 | ‘ God , ca n't a man say anything in his own house without it being taken up wrong ? ’ and the quarrel circled about the two positions until he reached and took her in his arms . |
| 29 | In the early days a few Members complained about the new lighting , but some adjustments were made and the Committee reported no further objections on these grounds ( although a survey of MPs attitudes following the introduction of television , which was conducted by the IBA , showed that 59% of the respondents found the lighting in the Chamber too bright , compared with 31% before the experiment began ) . |
| 30 | Complaints about the grievous burden of purveyance reappeared the following year , and the Meaux Chronicler complained about the outrageous burden of taxation imposed for the campaign of 1335 . |