Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Daurog moved about their business , eyeing Tallis with the same shivering caution as the evening before . |
| 2 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 3 | I care the way Jefferson cared about his rats and their portal shunts . |
| 4 | During its setup , it detects any sound drivers you have installed — you need Windows 3.1 or better to run it and 286 users will , I 'm afraid , miss out on all of this , since you need a 386sx or better in order to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode — so that when Johnny goes about his business you hear his grunts and groans the screech of seagulls , the lapping of the waves and so on . |
| 5 | But beyond all this , Malham goes about its business of being a living Dales village , with its farms and farmers , its village hall and little shops , very much in the way it has always done . |
| 6 | Dr. Tomlin has written a letter to Mr Gorbachev explaining about his hunger strike , and asking for support to help make him a Czech national again . |
| 7 | Cluett moved about his line long before McAllister made contact with the ball , though the referee seemed to be the only person not to notice the offence . |
| 8 | It took a particular mood for Ken to talk about his sexual problems . |
| 9 | And if Matey complains about their rapid disappearance you may tell her that I have developed a passion for them ! ’ |
| 10 | Cadfael went about his work all the more assiduously because a part of his mind was elsewhere , and he felt its absence as guilt , even though his concern was with a serious matter of justice , guilt and innocence . |
| 11 | David tells about his night-time television viewing being interrupted by a prompting to pray ; then of several trips to New York all with no clear understanding that he was to set up a programme for those involved in drug abuse . |
| 12 | Lucy worried about her son and drugs , her son and girls , her son and money . |
| 13 | Corbett spoke about his early life , his wars in Wales and work at the Chancery . |
| 14 | ‘ I spent a lot of time with Phil Silvers talking about his family away from the others , ’ Anita Harris now recalls . |
| 15 | Dennis Waterman talking about his latest attempt to flee the Cockney stereotype . |
| 16 | Josie said from the doorway , and so Lucy explained about her earlier interview and the ring binder that she 'd seen . |
| 17 | In this book Linda Sireling writes about its significance in Judaism , and in her life . |
| 18 | This concern was top priority for the first apostles as Paul and Barnabas reported about their discussion with Peter , James and John . |
| 19 | Gavin Laird , the general secretary of engineering union , the AEU , will be in Darlington on Saturday 8 February to talk about his union 's plans for a merger with electrician 's union EETPU . |
| 20 | In early 1970 , he met the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli to talk about his playing Francis of Assisi in Brother Sun and Sister Moon . |
| 21 | What does Nigel like about his work ? |
| 22 | A prolonged session at the Whore Pits produced a number of colourful and instructive pictures , a number of which Rincewind concealed about his person for detailed perusal in private . |
| 23 | Ruth went about her tasks in a dream , but her preoccupied state was naturally attributed to grief . |
| 24 | The terrors which Mr Cash expresses about our future in the community have a familiar ring about them . |
| 25 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 26 | Such articles may not start with art ; as Rudolf Arnheim said about his book , Art and Visual Perception , he applied principles of visual perception to examples taken from the arts . |
| 27 | Colin forgot about his painful back and sat up in bed . |
| 28 | The four films have no connection to the Gulf War as such , other than showing the aircraft and crews of the RAF going about their daily business . |
| 29 | The smart-money crowd is saying that the revised scoring — with every race counting for title points — is tailor-made for this French Ferrari driver , who now has a more-than-willing helper in Jean Alesi to look after the business of returning the Ferrari compliment to Senna and allowing Prost to go about his business unencumbered by Brazilians wishing to use his piece of road . |
| 30 | I 'M HERE , BOSS : Bryan 's assistant Julia goes about her work yesterday |