Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see . |
| 2 | He had forgotten all about the character he had abandoned in the February forest , the so-named Miller . |
| 3 | And he has forgotten all about the Lost Boys and how to fly , until his own children are kidnapped by his old adversary Captain Hook . |
| 4 | When this affair with Patrick and the servant girl had blown up , she had forgotten all about the stones . |
| 5 | Clearly the brute of a man had forgotten all about the interview — so too had Milada Pankracova , or she would have reminded him . |
| 6 | The Government has failed to add any convincing arguments to its feeble justifications for the changes , and dares not come clean about the real reasons . |
| 7 | The Government still have not come clean about the information revealed in a Select Committee appendix . |
| 8 | He said he 'd felt awful about the abortion last time , and he wanted to keep this one and marry me and start again . ’ |
| 9 | Yet , given the reality that a number of children were deprived and neglected and the shortage of sympathetic officials , who could in any case have done little about the causes of such deprivation , it is difficult to known what alternative measures were available . |
| 10 | ‘ Mandy , you really should n't have said that about the Mafia . ’ |
| 11 | If they had said this about the Paris workmen , Louis would still be on the throne … |
| 12 | Earlier monarchs had spent very little on such things and had not done much about the world outside Europe or about the development of their colonies . |
| 13 | They have n't said much about the cost , anything about the cost , and they have n't said whether , well they would n't would they ? , , whether anyone was dissatisfied , cos I understand from my family that they have been met you know they have been raised in the press , but it 's not a hundred per cent . |
| 14 | I 've said little about the rich descriptive skill , the human insight with which he leads the reader through humorous happenings , tragic episodes , through the follies of social manoeuvring and the deceptions of love , through a portrait gallery of adolescent girls , aging homosexuals , upstart socialites , and solidly sensible servants , to an eventual understanding of his , Marcel 's , artistic vocation . |
| 15 | He had himself escaped , but , he said matter-of-factly , he had always felt lousy about the others . |
| 16 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 17 | Have you ever felt angry about the misogyny rampant in the lyrics of certain rap groups ? |
| 18 | A few comments will be made first about the life cycle of a star of mass roughly 20 , . |
| 19 | In bald terms , many of today 's most prominent constitutional authorities have grown anxious about the working of unfettered representative democracy and majority rule . |
| 20 | No sooner have I got excited about the cool sensation in my throat than the can is empty . |
| 21 | It appeared that Lord Coleworthy had heard all about the trouble from Fairfax and was trying to be a peacemaker . |
| 22 | By 1956 Britain had become concerned about the impact the EEC would have on its own economy and political role . |
| 23 | However , my wife has become concerned about the health of one of them and refused the invitation . |
| 24 | More than this , many constitutional authorities have become uneasy about the behaviour of governments in the light of the doctrines of mandate and the manifesto which are said to give effective power to party activists and extremists outside of parliament . |
| 25 | As a Southerner you will only recently have become aware about the passion for the game up here . |
| 26 | She had never said so , certainly , because she hated to admit that she minded anything , but she had seemed evasive about the future , and had shown no great enthusiasm over the journalistic course she was going to take . |
| 27 | He shot once with King Edward You knew all that , it was one of his favourite stories , and you must have known all about the guns . |
| 28 | That was why he had been so hostile at the beginning , why he 'd known all about the family . |
| 29 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 30 | Environmentalists have expressed concerned about the concept of a money-based " right to pollute " . |