Example sentences of "[verb] about [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was the name of one of the Frenchmen who called to see about Daniel the other day . |
| 2 | ‘ Does he think about sex the whole time ? ’ |
| 3 | The early emphasis upon the powerful house-trained group going about things the proper way built up a picture of group influence and success within the context of the play of a moderate and restrained politics . |
| 4 | Then , in Capital , Marx attempts to break through and out of the veil of economic ideology , and he does this by showing that the way the economy is usually talked about hides the real basis of society and served to maintain the exploitation on which it rests . |
| 5 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 6 | But I was saying about Help the Aged , Check Your Tax . |
| 7 | It 's funny , I thought about sweeteners the other day , I think it 's just as bad as sugar , I think . |
| 8 | But er , pre , I thought you were talking about George the first something like that then you 've got er hand sawn timber , you know you can see the marks on the board |
| 9 | It DOES get easier , but the longer you keep your mouth shut about Jesus the harder it becomes to speak out . |
| 10 | I mean , Gary says you dream about marriage the same way you dream about someone coming down your throat ; it 's not something you 're going to actually do , not these days , but that does n't mean you do n't dream about it . |