Example sentences of "he [verb] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 2 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 3 | Mills had apparently met a very loquacious Dennis Suit in a bar in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , and listened to him brag about the worldwide connections he had made in the course of his career as a self-proclaimed CIA agent . |
| 4 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
| 5 | Some days , when it 's damp , he has to use the stick inside , too , and I can hear him clacking about the uncarpeted rooms and corridors of the house ; a hollow noise , going from place to place . |
| 6 | Secondly , he cared about the intellectual question in religious life . |
| 7 | and er you know if they did erm I mean Martin asked about the , he asked about the good wood guide you know and I told them where they can get it but that they can have it in their office and put it in their library . |
| 8 | He asked about the regional conference . |
| 9 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 10 | However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain . |
| 11 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 12 | In his first piece for Esquire , he writes about the strange case of Lenny McLean ( page 88 ) . |
| 13 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 14 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 15 | Had he written about the great hunt , the rites of the warriors ? |
| 16 | How does he feel about the Swedish Lapps ? |
| 17 | All week-end he drove about the outer suburbs with Jannie and the boys , calling on relatives and letting fall the news in the course of conversation . |
| 18 | On his way round , via the Operations Room , he hears about the armed escort vehicles in hot pursuit of a police Hotspur Land-Rover , which in turn is giving chase to an orange Lada for minor motoring offences . |
| 19 | He glanced about the assembled company . |
| 20 | He talked about the European Commission 's social action programme . |
| 21 | ‘ Afterwards , he talked about the new position I gave him . |
| 22 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 23 | He talked about the rising cost in legal aid ; he talked about legal aid in other countries ; and he arbitrarily discounted the proposals in our alternative package . |
| 24 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
| 25 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 26 | He thought about the long hours , the continuous toil , the mistakes , the mishaps , the inefficiency and the constant battle to build what he now saw before him . |
| 27 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 28 | As he drew to a halt in front of the boomgate he thought about the unacceptable quantities of low-level toxic waste being expelled daily into the atmosphere by avaricious chemical companies with scant regard for the safety and welfare of future generations . |
| 29 | He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway , surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory . |
| 30 | He thought about the soft ringing of the telephone bell , and the quiet whisper when he answered it . |