Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 2 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 3 | I wanted to join up , like you — I even tried lying about my age , but I did n't have any luck . ’ |
| 4 | He stopped fretting about his life and about the future , about what was good or bad in it . |
| 5 | A sigh escaped her , and as she gave herself up to the pleasure of his embrace her arm rose to entwine about his neck . |
| 6 | He stopped thinking about his hands . |
| 7 | When I shouted to enquire about his successful bait all he said was : Anything I put on . |
| 8 | ‘ What was she , some lonely widow who 'd heard about your hip ? ’ |
| 9 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd forgotten about our old friend . |
| 11 | Erm I thought that you lost er I thought that you 'd forgotten about your referrals but you did actually come back to them erm and I 'm not quite sure whether you actually tackled all of ANNA , I know that you got the authority , I 'm not qu |
| 12 | For as she turned towards him , a great fall of bright copper hair , loosened by the wild chase , came cascading about her shoulders and fell to her waist , enveloping her in a rippling sheet of flame . |
| 13 | One speaker , who came to talk about his hobby of flying , told of his experiences in a neighbouring group . |
| 14 | ‘ But I came to hear about my future , not Mr Rochester 's ! ’ |
| 15 | Then , just as I was convinced of your innocence , I discovered you 'd lied about your brother and I caught you with Rainald . |
| 16 | The only person he 'd told about his odd vision had been Jenny , and she had laughed delightedly and understood . |
| 17 | There was a note from Lisabeth Sellotaped to my door telling me that Frank had phoned and that Salome was ‘ comfortable ’ which was heaps better than ‘ stable ’ , and he 'd talked about her being moved to town . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’ |
| 19 | The tug crew noticed the ship was lying low in the water and began to worry about her sinking . |
| 20 | Then I began to worry about my birth plan . |
| 21 | After dinner Leonora returned to her knitting , glad of its soothing monotony , when Penry began musing about her background . |
| 22 | He began to wonder about her life outside the hospital . |
| 23 | And some viewers began to wonder about our relationship . |
| 24 | The trouble started when she began to talk about her will . |
| 25 | After tea Sarah and Anne and John went into the parlour to play records and John sat down beside Anne and began to talk about his job . |
| 26 | She finished her own coffee , listening to him as he began to talk about his friend Denzil . |
| 27 | So , even though the man was a stranger and I was afraid of him , I began worrying about his being sick , and the idea that he might die made me feel quite desperate . |
| 28 | I know how my sick friends enjoyed hearing about my day , and appreciated the prayer from my little scroll , when I took Our Lord to them on Sunday morning . |
| 29 | NCR Corp first began talking about its Top-End transaction processing monitor at the beginning of 1991 ( UX No 317 ) , just before it was taken over by AT&T . |
| 30 | Who began talking about her father . |