Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos nobody 's been sent any notices for it or notified about it . |
| 2 | So , it worked ideal , and that 's when I first found this place or heard about it well I heard . |
| 3 | Mary described to Mick how the young girl had stood in the hall , her face cupped between her palms , and gazed about her , while the tears ran down her face and she kept muttering , ‘ Oh Martin ! |
| 4 | He stopped for a moment and gazed about him . |
| 5 | Peter and Paul will want to remember their Mummy as she was before she got ill , and how much she loved and cared about them when they were younger , even if the illness makes here different . |
| 6 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 7 | I it 's just that I remember on Monday morning hearing on the radio that it was being talked about that afternoon and of course immediately forgot to go and get a copy of the next day 's Guardian and read about it and all the other |
| 8 | The conversation ebbed and swirled about them . |
| 9 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 10 | Food had become an obsession with everyone ; even the children talked and schemed about it constantly ; even the Padre , at this period , could hardly fall asleep without dreaming that ravens were coming to feed him but alas , no sooner did these winged waiters arrive with nourishment than he would wake up again . |
| 11 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 12 | In fact the defendants did not consider the transparencies suitable for their project and placed them in a drawer , together with the unread terms , and forgot about them . |
| 13 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 14 | I took it out with me and forgot about it — at least I thought I had . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 16 | At the time Sinha thought it was n't very likely and forgot about it . |
| 17 | I laughed , got on my horse , and forgot about it . |
| 18 | He paused and glanced about him to check that no French crew members were within earshot . |
| 19 | Over the next few months we talked and prayed about it and in the Spring we submitted applications for staffing on the King 's Lodge Base at Nuneaton , starting in April 1993 . |
| 20 | I love her dearly and , God forgive me , when unexpectedly Havvie Blaine came into our lives and lied about her I believed him , and not her . |
| 21 | Er , people went into corners and talked about her . |
| 22 | ‘ Afterwards we sat down and talked about it and it was as if we were talking about someone else . |
| 23 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 24 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 25 | erm should she pack up her Saturday job , it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five , and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got , she 's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that 's not gon na be so easy these days , I mean they 're gon na take the exceptionals that they need are n't they ? |
| 26 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 27 | So , I said no , I 'd mentioned it to you and talked about it . |
| 28 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 29 | Roddy shifted his eighteen-stone frame and looked about him . |
| 30 | Craig made his way to the attic and looked about him , quickly assessing the situation . |