Example sentences of "[vb past] about [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works . |
| 2 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 3 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 5 | But it is important that these arguments do not lead the world to forget what it learned about aid during the past 30 years . |
| 6 | Because you spoke about Heather in the present tense , as if you genuinely believe she 's still alive . ’ |
| 7 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |