Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 2 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 3 | Now here 's a couple of customers , you were at the circus , first of all how did you feel about the circus that you saw ? |
| 4 | Right , so yo , you watched er , Dr. Marius Bernard , erm , the South African , what did you think about the message that came across in the film ? |
| 5 | Now er it was n't that night I said it , it was afterwards so I said what did you think about the concert then ? |
| 6 | Did you ask about the car ? |
| 7 | ‘ Well , of course you may , but did you ask about the tides ? |
| 8 | And what did you understand about the level of force to be used ? |
| 9 | What what did you like about the work Lucy ? |
| 10 | What did you say about the cost ? |
| 11 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you lie about the drugs too ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did you hear about the Irishman who took his car in for a service ? |
| 14 | DID you hear about the man with a microwave bed ? |
| 15 | Did you hear about the man who went to the fancy dress party as a bone ? |
| 16 | Did you hear about the wally who went fly fishing ? |
| 17 | Did you hear about the night hunter who shot tigers by aiming right between their luminous eyes ? |
| 18 | " Did you hear about the trouble the big Michelin plantation as Phu Rieng has been having with " red peril " agitators ? " |
| 19 | Did you hear about the plastic surgeon warming himself by the fire ? |
| 20 | Did you hear about the workman who had a sausage stuck behind his ear ? |
| 21 | Did you hear about the Scout Club ? |
| 22 | Did you hear about the Apple party ? |
| 23 | Well there was , did you hear about the woman in Ireland who won about a hundred and fifty thousand ? |
| 24 | ‘ How did you know about the boxes in the freezer ? ’ |
| 25 | did you know about the cheque ? |
| 26 | When you rang what did you know about the occupiers of the flat . |
| 27 | ‘ But how did you know about the snake , Holmes ? ’ |
| 28 | How did you er how did you know about the football ? |
| 29 | Did you know about the fact that they 'd been captured ? |
| 30 | Did you know about the family that has been found dead ? |