Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 2 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 3 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 4 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 5 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 6 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 7 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 8 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 9 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 11 | A defendant who does not believe in consent could either be one who fleetingly turns his mind to the issue of consent but since he is indifferent to the matter forms no view at all or one whose indifference is such that he entirely fails to think about it in the first place . |
| 12 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 13 | The explanation is to do with the influence on one another of the communicating classes — the people who practise politics , write about it in the higher journalism , and put it on the screen . |
| 14 | His posting to Pembroke Dock , then commanded by Wg Cdr A. T. Harris , was a meeting of great minds and it is interesting to recall what Harris said about him in the early thirties , and later in the war years : " he was , and still is , the most efficient airman I have ever met " . |
| 15 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 16 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |