Example sentences of "about [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First visitors ride high above the shopping mall , weaving through sailing ships and shoals of fish , hearing all about the towns ' maritime past . |
| 2 | Remembering that Peter Suvarov had , himself , taken part in that Revolution , Julia asked him about the Russians ' probable intentions . |
| 3 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 4 | That was the nice thing about the horses ' strange stable : its cathedral-like aloofness from the weather . |
| 5 | Mr MacDuff asked jurors to ignore what they felt about the princesses ' awful behaviour , and think about fair compensation . |
| 6 | On 1 December Cumberland moved some of his cavalry forward to Congleton , from which they withdrew after confirming the presence of Lord George Murray 's troops , but this intelligence left the Duke more undecided than ever about the Jacobites ' real objective , as his private secretary admitted in a letter , dated 2 December 1745 , to London : |
| 7 | Our first step is to obtain information about the hens ' own point of view . |
| 8 | ( Giscard d'Estaing had already warned the Palace about the Romanians ' insatiable pilfering during their recent stay in France , but Palace officials remain discreet about any misdemeanours during the Ceauşescus ' visit . ) |
| 9 | Nothing is known about the brothers ' formal education or early apprenticeships . |
| 10 | B C R executive , Hamish , is sceptical about the banks ' sudden endorsement of angels . |