Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] about this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to think about this but did n't succeed . |
| 2 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you 'd forgotten about this morning , ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 4 | Ah , I 'd forgotten about this one : Kevin Brand , there could be a connection there . |
| 5 | She 'd gone about this project in entirely the wrong manner . |
| 6 | Yet when she came to think about this further , she realised that she was nowhere near understanding Brian . |
| 7 | Miss Kenton seemed to think about this before saying a little sulkily : |
| 8 | Ernie seemed to think about this . |
| 9 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 10 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 11 | It was some time before the fashion magazines and newspapers started to write about this street culture , but when THE FACE wrote a big feature on the subject in its July 1983 issue the floodgates opened . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 13 | They kept talking about this creature . |
| 14 | Hugh lay thinking about this . |
| 15 | Bill Clough lay thinking about this for some time . |
| 16 | I got to think about this on my own . |
| 17 | I got to think about this . |
| 18 | We did think about this point last night . |
| 19 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 20 | I mean now we 're still , you know we 're still er er if Freud did write about this , we 're still living with , with the consequences of this . |
| 21 | Yeah I know they did talk about this Doreen and Owen , because er |
| 22 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 23 | Driving through Kilmartin , south of Oban , I saw two notices calling public meetings to discuss pollution — the first I and many others had heard about this problem . |
| 24 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 25 | He had lied about this as about much else and she knew she should feel neither hurt nor surprised . |
| 26 | I had worried about this over-aged schoolgirl crush . |
| 27 | What the young Queen Victoria had to say about this , from her youthful posture on Sherbrooke Street , we shall never know . |
| 28 | People came and went as she sat thinking about this . |