Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I read about the poor devil , that those buggers trumped up an espionage charge against him and he 's years to serve in Russia . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 5 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , seeing me mixing rose madder and burnt sienna in my paint-box , ‘ what 's all this I hear about a new mother ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 8 | I know about the strange stains she found |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The only good thing I like about the fourth year , you 're doing the subjects you want to do but apart from that |
| 11 | ‘ What I like about the three guys is that they actually care about that . |
| 12 | ‘ I get about the same as the others . ’ |
| 13 | JC : What I remember about the first night was an uncomfortable feeling that the piece was under-rehearsed musically . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I talk about a textual body , and then I talk about a body that I inhabit and so many make bastions and institutions do n't want that . |
| 16 | Then we 're sending a letter which erm , well let me just say , we are then also sending , now here with the D I Y , the numbers er coincide Here the numbers coincide with the illustrations , so if I talk about a certain you have to look at paper one , paper two paper three or A B C. And you see what they look like . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 18 | ‘ Now you know how I feel about the high school , ’ said Carrie . |
| 19 | and I go about every eight weeks I think |
| 20 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 21 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 22 | Yes , I agree about the full backs . |
| 23 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 24 | So I think about a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 25 | And it demolished about I think about a third of what was in it . |
| 26 | In another school , which is er , locally managed , we are I think about the only school in the county who have decided to employ our own caretaker and our own cleaners , and , and in fact the latitude that gives us , has really allowed us to do a lot more in that school , erm with the staff and the staff are happier . |
| 27 | I think about the only nicknames that my mates have got |
| 28 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 29 | I think about the half-drafted minute lying on my own desk , on a lower floor in the front of this same building , about the arrangements for Sunningdale . |
| 30 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |