Example sentences of "and [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped for a moment and gazed about him . |
| 2 | Mary described to Mick how the young girl had stood in the hall , her face cupped between her palms , and gazed about her , while the tears ran down her face and she kept muttering , ‘ Oh Martin ! |
| 3 | Peter and Paul will want to remember their Mummy as she was before she got ill , and how much she loved and cared about them when they were younger , even if the illness makes here different . |
| 4 | Within days of the outbreak of war , prominent Arab-Americans were being visited by the FBI and asked about their knowledge of international terrorism . |
| 5 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 6 | In PFK September , S. Kyme of Grimsby wrote and asked about sexing and breeding Clown Loach . |
| 7 | And she brightened up so much , and in a moment was wide awake , and asked about everything . ’ |
| 8 | Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums . |
| 9 | She spoke rationally to them and asked about their families , but during the night she died in her sleep . |
| 10 | A Japanese man came in and asked about the china ducks . |
| 11 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 12 | He started to speak but Jorge came in and asked about dinner and Maggie slipped out . |
| 13 | As requested I wrote and asked about self-catering accommodation at the conference and I received a reply saying that there 's one house that erm she 's come across that she thinks might be particularly suitable for us . |
| 14 | I believe that local authorities should have a strong housing function that we as local authorities should be providing good , well managed social housing in which our tenants have a say , where we have good tenant participation , where we have tenants taking a part in the sorts of repairs that they want to see , where every year they are er consulted and asked about where they want us to go next in terms of modernisation and repair . |
| 15 | ‘ John was put in a corner recently and asked about his fitness and said he thought he would be back in November . |
| 16 | Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them . |
| 17 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 18 | There are many many people who live in houses on their own ca n't get out and again it 's an indictment on our society when you hear and read about the telephone profits that er that B T are making . |
| 19 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
| 20 | The conversation ebbed and swirled about them . |
| 21 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 22 | They quarrelled and argued about everything : spiritualism , art , philosophy and poetry . |
| 23 | Food had become an obsession with everyone ; even the children talked and schemed about it constantly ; even the Padre , at this period , could hardly fall asleep without dreaming that ravens were coming to feed him but alas , no sooner did these winged waiters arrive with nourishment than he would wake up again . |
| 24 | He unlatched his web again and swam about the cockpit , fielding flotsam . |
| 25 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 26 | In 1954 one was washed ashore in Norway that measured 9 metres from the end of its body to the tip of its outstretched tentacles and weighed about a ton . |
| 27 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 28 | Once on the island he lost no time getting to the prison , and within the hour was waiting in the ante-chamber to an interview room , listening to the distant , hollow sound of metal ringing on metal , and footsteps echoing morbidly as men exercised and moved about their token business . |
| 29 | He got up and moved about the room , picking up ornaments and moving restlessly from one side to the other . |
| 30 | Charles and Diana frequently visited their brother John 's lichen-covered grave in the Sandringham churchyard and mused about what he would have been like and whether they would have been born if he had lived . |