Example sentences of "[vb past] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men . |
| 2 | In the snail darter case the justices of the Supreme Court argued about the proper way to read the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 3 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 4 | Well , I must admit I got about the bottom mark . |
| 5 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 7 | Born again , a true believer , he did charity work : he cared about the poor and the disadvantaged … |
| 8 | A church that is dedicated to a gentle , caring man who cared about the poor , instead of helping the man who needs help and who is literally sitting on the doorstep , is showing tourists paintings , especially commissioned to educate the illiterate about God , is not even showing them to the illiterate . |
| 9 | You felt that she passionately cared about the French soldiers and made sure they won the war . |
| 10 | Secondly , he cared about the intellectual question in religious life . |
| 11 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate 's previous work . |
| 13 | He asked about the regional conference . |
| 14 | and er you know if they did erm I mean Martin asked about the , he asked about the good wood guide you know and I told them where they can get it but that they can have it in their office and put it in their library . |
| 15 | Nobody asked about the French couple . |
| 16 | Here the different ways of seeing ‘ women in film ’ , especially in the controversies over realism , over documentary film-making , over the gaze and over representations of sexuality , converged , for once , in the serious questions those four women asked about the feminist film debate which I have outlined above . |
| 17 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 18 | Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line . |
| 19 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) asked about the Scottish Development Agency investment in Stagecoach . |
| 20 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 21 | Alexandra learnt to live with it , and her unfailing courtesy and thoughtfulness brought her closer to the elderly Queen , in spite of whatever misgivings they both shared about the erring Prince . |
| 22 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 23 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 24 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 25 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
| 26 | And before meeting him , I wandered about the Left Bank reminding myself that I had been prescribed the city of love to feast my senses . |
| 27 | The King recounted past adventures , selected meats for him , joked about the abstemious habits of the baby St Nicholas , who refused the breast every Wednesday and Friday . |
| 28 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 29 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 30 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |