Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sutton people became so enraged about this , that the Pope eventually became involved . |
| 2 | Householders unaware of Sabbath conventions caused much discomfort to their young guests until they became better informed about Jewish religious observances . |
| 3 | I tried not to think about it , which is the only thing to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I tried not to think about it . |
| 5 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 6 | Lee turned her head away , looked down at her own navel and tried not to think about her mother . |
| 7 | He turned his own eyes away and tried not to think about it . |
| 8 | She tried not to think about Andrew , but Oswin knew what was passing through her mind . |
| 9 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 10 | Just one little thing bothered her , though she tried not to think about it . |
| 11 | Commander Abigail did n't even like the area : it caused him shame and guilt to consider it , he tried not to think about it . |
| 12 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 13 | Durance said : ‘ Maurin and Joseph believed that as long as Sabine promised never to talk about the extent of her work on the paintings there 'd be no trouble . |
| 14 | In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money . |
| 15 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 16 | All that business about Linda — I know we agreed not to talk about it — but I feel such a shit out here . |
| 17 | We treated each other within our little group humanely and normally , and passed over thinking about the others . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , there was a little problem , but I do n't think I 'd better talk about it on the phone . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd better think about getting you out of here . |
| 20 | But I do n't think I 'd better think about that . |
| 21 | if they ca n't , we 'd better enquire about that I wonder how little went on with his knee ? |
| 22 | ‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road . |
| 23 | The BIL says he worked out a Paul Daniels routine to deal with all the people who came in complaining about it ( count to three — say the magic word — now look in your wallet ) . |
| 24 | because er it 's obviously gon na fill a gap in my financial planning that I 'd not thought about in the past so I did find it particularly helpful . |
| 25 | Good , they 'd already forgotten about Zaria . |
| 26 | He gave her a strange look , and she wondered why he had called her Sarella Vila if he 'd already forgotten about Peter . |
| 27 | Would that have altered the way he 'd always felt about her ? |
| 28 | ‘ Disney executives flew me out there and gave me the kind of treatment I 'd always dreamed about when I was an actress … bouquets , champagne , limousines , ’ says Lynda . |
| 29 | Yet he made her feel sorry for Miss Lavant , a woman she 'd hardly thought about before . |
| 30 | I trudged home thinking about my day . |