Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband . |
| 2 | He took everything in his stride … the theatre was quite secondary to his interest in rugby ; he never stopped talking about the game ! … |
| 3 | And then it went on and Tug stopped thinking about the quality of the sound . |
| 4 | He stopped thinking about the amount of jam he was taking and leant back in his chair . |
| 5 | Müller stopped thinking about the foot , the ankle , the long leg and what lay hidden out of sight under her skirt . |
| 6 | Insufferably put , and probably not his own thought but something he has read , out of one of his damned French books that his father loathed seeing about the place — he had a phenomenal memory for things he had read . |
| 7 | The emergence of International Relations as a separate field of study was closely related to the approach that first captured thinking about the subject . |
| 8 | Mallards , coots and moorhens could often be seen and heard waddling about the housing estate where I lived or sometimes even boldly marching up the high street . |
| 9 | While John Carter waited in custody , local police began wondering about the strange disappearance of the farmer 's second wife . |
| 10 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 11 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 12 | They began talking about the future , and later made love once more . |
| 13 | He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything . |
| 14 | At 11am they said the baby was in distress and the six people in the room all began talking about the possibility of a Caesarean . |
| 15 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 16 | The moment passed , her mother began talking about the late roses in her flowerbeds and Rachel was just thinking she 'd got away with not mentioning David Markham , when her father said , ‘ Talking of OBEX , we wanted to check the date of the Family Day with you . ’ |
| 17 | To an annoyed Pétain he began talking about an early major counter-offensive at Verdun . |
| 18 | After a period spent talking about the Legion and what we thought it was going to be like , he turned to me , shook my hand and wished me good luck . |
| 19 | A true-grit survivor , he began thinking about a career in politics early , dreaming of being president while still in high school in Arkansas . |
| 20 | She began thinking about the possibility of at last talking to some other female about it all — not Alison , because she was the maternal type — but perhaps a professional . |
| 21 | There were further difficulties when one began thinking about the numbers of animals required at the Creation . |
| 22 | It did us well enough , I thought , until the day he started shouting about a real wife , a real home , a Sunday roast and babies . |
| 23 | He drew level with Marius and myself and started shouting about the English and how they were always the first to desert ; how he , Corporal Auriega , with four years ' Legion service , who had endured shelling in Beirut and the heat and flies of Chad , had finally had enough . |
| 24 | When I started stravaiging about the bens and glens more than 50 years ago , I had never heard the name Munro applied to a hill . |
| 25 | He started blustering about the general election and an end to the inflationary spiral . |
| 26 | Does the Prime Minister recall that it is now more than 12 months since he first started dithering about the election date , since when 750,000 peole have lost their jobs ? |
| 27 | Thérèse loved hearing about the padded silver suit of the terrifying and sad white clown . |
| 28 | He was even more distressed when , on another of his leaves , his wife , Fiona , started talking about a divorce . |
| 29 | Thus , this " think-tank " at the Air Ministry started talking about a target finding element which evolved into a target marking force and , ultimately , the Pathfinder Force ( PFF ) . |
| 30 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |