Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 2 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 3 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |
| 4 | He tried to think about the Wall . |
| 5 | Then she sat at her bureau and put her hands to her flaming cheeks and tried to think about the hens , the sea , the possibility of buying a pig , something , anything , rather than the likelihood of not being painted by Michael Swinton . |
| 6 | Moreover , when I actually stopped to think about the problem I became uncomfortably aware that it was very unlikely that I would be able to obtain such commitment . |
| 7 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 8 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
| 9 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 10 | Interestingly , the only doubts that Western scientists seemed to express about the viability of the project concerned this deadline . |
| 11 | ‘ It would be … well , interesting to know just how you came to hear about the infant 's birth , and why you felt this birth was … well , interesting . |
| 12 | As you know , you do a half halt before asking for a transition , because it 's more polite than shouting ‘ Oi ! ’ , but Skipper seemed to forget about the legs bit and would go into whatever pace was faster than the one he had been doing . |
| 13 | The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular . |
| 14 | Few people seemed to care about the conditions of the hostels or the chronic shortage of appropriate accommodation which rendered these men vagrants . |
| 15 | Mrs Jelbart must be working out well as a housekeeper , and from a couple of things her father had said , Belinda gathered that she seemed to care about the Jones boys in a more personal way too . |
| 16 | But no-one seemed to care about the cost — Rome was too busy surfing on spumante , giddy with the success of its new plaything . |
| 17 | At first , he says , people did not understand what she wanted , but she came to learn about the Masai and write it in a book . |
| 18 | Whenever these arguments showed signs of running out of steam , we turned to complain about the inadequacy of the supporting papers . |
| 19 | Pushing himself with indolent grace away from the door , Rourke came into the room and began to rummage about the shelves beneath the counter . |
| 20 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 21 | And then his thoughts wandered again and he began to worry about the speed with which the vegetation was growing around the ramparts . |
| 22 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 23 | And he began to worry about the body in the garden . |
| 24 | Times have changed since Naipaul began to write about the societies of the Caribbean : these are now less apt to seem , to the outsider , petty and remote . |
| 25 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 26 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 27 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 28 | Suddenly , he stood upright , held out his hands like paws , then bunched up the tails of his huge brown coat in front of his stomach to convey an impression of the kangaroo 's pouch , and began to bounce about the room . |
| 29 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 30 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |