Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun prp] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan Cochran has written to Pat about the above and , amongst other things , has asked if we are planning to invite the voluntary sector to contribute . |
| 2 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 3 | Lying to Manville about the 48 hours grace hardly seemed to matter , in that context . |
| 4 | He then carefully peeled the front part forwards , muttering to Montgomery about the bruising this revealed . |
| 5 | In 1537 Ralph Sadler complained to Cromwell about the probable consequences of an enforced withdrawal : ‘ My absence from the court will so much hinder me that I shall never be able to recover . ’ |
| 6 | They 'll be playing live in the BBC 's Maida Vale studios and talking to Campbell about the new album . |
| 7 | He really must try to explain to Carol about the mixed consciousness-raising group he 'd been in . |
| 8 | He explained to Jacqui about the German measles . |