Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Handiman made everyone think about the handicapped person in their family that it 's easy to deny , ’ says Damon , who may have found the character 's roots in his own childhood club foot . |
| 2 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I learnt about the exploited conditions under which the peons and gauchos had to live . |
| 7 | And Colin had his done about the same time . |
| 8 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |
| 9 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 10 | I forgot about the back pocket . |
| 11 | I read about the poor devil , that those buggers trumped up an espionage charge against him and he 's years to serve in Russia . |
| 12 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 13 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 14 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 16 | I know about the strange stains she found |
| 17 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 18 | The only good thing I like about the fourth year , you 're doing the subjects you want to do but apart from that |
| 19 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 20 | ‘ I get about the same as the others . ’ |
| 21 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 22 | Okay , so I lied about the cuddly toy and the microwave , but I bet if ART could have got them into the Multiverb 's 1U , 19″ rack format they would have . |
| 23 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 24 | It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) . |
| 25 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 27 | ‘ Now you know how I feel about the high school , ’ said Carrie . |
| 28 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 29 | I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes . |
| 30 | I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission . |