Example sentences of "[verb] about [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 3 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 4 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
| 6 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 7 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 8 | No and like they 're , like Mr was like taking the piss yeah right , everyone was clapping and cheering about something in the class , yeah , and Mr opens the Mr opens the door and goes stop that clapping , and shuts the door . |
| 9 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 10 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
| 11 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 12 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 13 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 14 | He said he 'd think about it over the weekend , and let Paul know on the Monday . |
| 15 | No that was that was the Friday and as it says th well I do n't know if it says there or not , but they said what would happen , they 'd think about it over the weekend and they 'd contact me the Monday afternoon erm to make a final decision . |
| 16 | I 'll think about it on the way home . ’ |
| 17 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 18 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 19 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 20 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 21 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 22 | She thinks he 's forgotten about it in the rush of leaving for America . |
| 23 | If there 's a traffic jam anywhere the new information unit will let you know about it on the hour as well . |
| 24 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 25 | The body 's mechanism takes over because the logical consequence of that would be to die , and we can see here that there is an arousal of something like eight to ten seconds , and during that period the patient would wake up , probably not sufficient that they would know about it in the morning , and we can see here that the breathing starts again . |
| 26 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 27 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 28 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 29 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 30 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |