Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] about [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 2 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 3 | Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over . |
| 4 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 5 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 6 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 7 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 8 | And I meant what I said about you at the start of this . |
| 9 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 10 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 11 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 12 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 13 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 14 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |
| 15 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 16 | The Archbishop arrived in Munich between performances of La finta giardiniera , and although he was not to hear the work himself , he learnt about it from the Elector and his family : |
| 17 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 18 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 19 | He thought about it over the weekend and accepted . |
| 20 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 21 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 22 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 23 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |