Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PREMIER John Major was under increasing pressure yesterday to spell out how much he knew about the Iraqgate scandal . |
| 2 | Much more likely he boasted about the fact that he had the top man working for him . ’ |
| 3 | Surely she was too thin by far for a man 's taste , yet the one at her side today was a toff and no mistake , and it was obvious he cared about the girl by the way he kept looking at her with concern in his eyes . |
| 4 | Balcon could expostulate all he liked about the depth of British talent but , for Mayer , the film industry remained in Hollywood . |
| 5 | In 1778 he wrote about the buildings in Ambleside ‘ … with their projecting porch 's connecting galleries , beautifully formed chimneys and bold irregularities . ’ |
| 6 | doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists |