Example sentences of "[verb] about [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suppose for example that I am a smoker who has just heard about the dangers of lung cancer . |
| 7 | Council representatives heard about the experiences of two representatives — Tony Fox FCIB , Worthing , and David Dimmer FCIB , Bristol . |
| 8 | The French bank originally heard about the headhunters they had employed by word-of-mouth contact , and BICC had based their choice — perhaps more dangerously — on a review of headhunting firms ' own literature . |
| 9 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you 've heard about the traces of tranquillisers found in the deceased 's blood ? ’ |
| 11 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 12 | There is increasing conflict between the church and state funding and we need to free ourselves from wingeing about the cuts . |
| 13 | pecked about the paving-stones , |
| 14 | You know when we went to see about the flagstones ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going upstairs to see about the children . ’ |
| 16 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
| 17 | That 'll give you time to arrange about the animals ? ’ |
| 18 | We used to feud about the oil-leaks which would drain down the side of the.little courtyard and get under and into my flower-pots . |
| 19 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 20 | Whatever one thinks about the activities of the author , he was a former member of the security services . |
| 21 | I do n't know what the Department thinks about the universities . |
| 22 | Pesh Framjee of Binder Hamlyn 's Charities Unit agrees that fund managers are making a song and dance about the changes , ‘ but let us say there is no smoke without fire and a lot of wet leaves going round ’ . |
| 23 | PREACHING about the dangers of the Ecstasy drug wo n't stop youngsters trying it . |
| 24 | Fear about a drugs epidemic fuelled this alarm ( MacGregor , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | Rex mooched about the graves wondering when we were going to have lunch . |
| 26 | So why does such a great amount of personnel change — can you explain about the points system here . |
| 27 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 28 | When the taxi driver spotted the police he asked about the goods but was told to keep driving . |
| 29 | ‘ You asked about the circumstances of Maurice 's death . ’ |
| 30 | The remainder of Tramway No. 11 was inspected on 7 July and the Colonel asked about the gradients on the approaches to Pitlake Bridge . |