Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
| 2 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |
| 3 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 4 | I had read about the proposed rock 'n' roll evening in the newsletter and thought ‘ that would be a laugh , wonder if I could persuade to go ? ’ |
| 5 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 6 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 7 | Calming down , Loretta outlined what she had discovered about the dead man . |
| 8 | They had been working together , and she had asked about the following day . |
| 9 | She had heard about the little boy Grégoire — Jean-Paul 's son , so people said . |
| 10 | But , of course , she had known about the sadistic part . |
| 11 | Angus Maude , who had written about The Middle Classes and in 1983 was to become a life peer , lived in a nearby village , sent his children ( or at least his daughters ) to Banbury Grammar School and was an incisive critic of the contemporary changes in educational policy . |
| 12 | I was interested to read what you had to say about the safest types of bedding for babies on the Solutions page in your August issue . |
| 13 | The Company might not even hear of a replacement until he had been " appointed " — unofficially , of course , by the local authorities , who continued to complain about the inadequate salary . |
| 14 | Is that all you wanted to say about the down side ? |
| 15 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 16 | We started to talk about the solar system . |
| 17 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 18 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 19 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 20 | This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband . |
| 21 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 22 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 23 | He started blustering about the general election and an end to the inflationary spiral . |
| 24 | Then he started to think about the other case , the poisoning of a whole family group at No. 22 , Church Row . |
| 25 | Somehow he kept thinking about the whole affair and he was n't sure anymore about the skull ; should he have moved it ? |
| 26 | And one thing he did know about the real Sandra was that she had a very low tolerance for boredom , and that she got bored very easily . |
| 27 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 28 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 29 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 30 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for what he had to say about the European Community . |