Example sentences of "[verb] about [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 3 | But what , she wondered , did the Colonel think about during the periods of his wife 's persistent chattering ? |
| 4 | What did you think about about the the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time ? |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 6 | You know , there 's a lot of symbolism that really has been lost , people do n't think about in the wedding service , but is underlying , you know , until fa fairly recently a lot of people promised to obey , erm , look at Prince Andrew and that when he got married , you know , erm , the Duchess of York actually promised to obey him |
| 7 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 8 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 9 | Raskolnikov 's ‘ incomplete smile ’ is the index of those ‘ half-baked ’ ( literally , ‘ incomplete ’ ) ideas which Dostoevsky writes about in the letter to Katkov . |
| 10 | I thought I 'll give him something to talk about at the garage . |
| 11 | We 're still going to have to talk about with the e , with the |
| 12 | The Green Party Conference drew to a close today and they certainly had something to talk about with the publication of the government 's White Paper on the environment . |
| 13 | In its pubs — all two of them — the locals now have more to talk about along the bar counter than the weather and the fishing . |
| 14 | And in its pubs — all two of them — the locals have more to talk about along the bar counter than the weather and the fishing . |
| 15 | But , more importantly , a Smiths gig is merely part of a night out , something to talk about in the pub afterwards . |
| 16 | There was always something to talk about in the dressing-room . |
| 17 | ‘ Because it makes a good story , something to talk about in the pubs . ’ |
| 18 | French poets , in the eleventh century , discovered or invented , or were the first to express , that romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth . |
| 19 | It is a very common feature in the first questions drafted by students in schedule designing to ask questions which patently have not been thought about from the respondents ' point of view . |
| 20 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 21 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 22 | The children have warmth , shelter and food ; much more than they could have dreamed about before the revolution . |
| 23 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 24 | Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . |
| 25 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 27 | Talked about for a week afterwards ? |
| 28 | And no-one looked more livelier than Denis Hollywood in the last seven minutes of a contest that will be talked about for a long time to come . |
| 29 | The new TV channel that has been talked about for a while will be named ‘ The Manchester United channel ’ and will outbid the BBC for the right to be channel no.1 and will have a completely unbiased opinion of football ( just like the BBC ) |
| 30 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |