Example sentences of "[verb] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent explained about the name of the guest Nicola was expecting to meet . |
| 2 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 3 | Gregson had called immediately and Houghton had explained about the fingerprints and how he was sure he now had positive identification of at least one of the bodies . |
| 4 | I was nervous and frightened about the future , yet excited because of being so . |
| 5 | And what he said , prophesying about the future , saying what would happen in the future in this case . |
| 6 | He prowls about the place , you know , on his own , and dreams of springing a dazzling surprise on the archaeological world some day . |
| 7 | In the end Brodkey 's apparently stupendous equipment as a writer , that sense of an almost Flaubertian anxiety about pitch and cadence which plays about every sentence , can scarcely conceal the second-hand quality of his inventions . |
| 8 | Dorothy L. Sayers was writing her series of radio plays about the life of Christ called Man Born to Be King . |
| 9 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 10 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
| 11 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 12 | Here are some pointers on how to go about the writing task : 1 . |
| 13 | Erm and I could see what they were after you know , an engineer has in his mind the plan and how to go about the thing and , and get it all done in a one-off situation . |
| 14 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 've heard about a gentleman who visits you every night at the theatre , ’ he said to his sister . |
| 16 | And do n't believe all you think you 've heard about a Cobra being undrivable in anything but a straight line either . |
| 17 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
| 18 | And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've heard about a chap who 's in close touch with a fellow who can always manage it . |
| 20 | I 've heard about a cockatoo but you 're talking about the hens cockerels . |
| 21 | We have heard about a planet called Vadinamia , where our stolen phetam may have been taken . |
| 22 | I 've heard about a roleplaying game called Maniac Mansion from US Gold . |
| 23 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 24 | Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it . |
| 25 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 26 | None of them had heard about the recall . |
| 27 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 28 | The merits of the plaintiff 's objections to the means of valuation do not appear from the report , and did not need to , because this was a striking-out application under RSC Ord 18 , r19 , which allows no evidence to be heard about the case that the plaintiff wished to make . |
| 29 | HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ? |
| 30 | But have you heard about the metamorphosis demonstration out on the main plaza ? |