Example sentences of "[verb] about the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , ‘ The Doctor wants I to see about the moss in the tennis court . |
| 2 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 3 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 4 | Amaranth , who felt her temper rising , asked about the trailer in today 's True Brit . |
| 5 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 6 | In desperate need of love vibes , the audience descended like a pack of ravenous wolves on St Etienne , not least because this duo of Thunderbird puppets in polo necks are now fronted solely by Stephanie , a dead ringer for the teenage Bardot who gambols about the stage in such a display of unrestrained delight , that you think ‘ this is the real thing ’ . |
| 7 | The investment bank wishes to maintain relationships in order to ensure future business , to preserve its reputation , and to maintain the value of any information it has gathered about the firm in question — which is obviously unsaleable . |
| 8 | ‘ If you mean about the girl in the car , she says there was no girl . |
| 9 | In a very short time , the two of them , together with Mrs Diggory , were fussing about the dog in the library , with bowls of warm water , blankets , an old sheet torn in strips , and even some milk laced with laudanum unearthed from the late Lady Merchiston 's store of medicines in the attics . |
| 10 | Pete says he just wanted to get in the air so he read about the sport in magazines and then got in touch with the association … he says the sport is easy if you know what you are doing but you can pay dearly for your mistakes |
| 11 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 12 | The Easter egg , overcome by heat , too much food , and an excess of wine , had to go and stand outside the door for a little fresh air , but came back full of verve and ready to tackle some of Willi 's bonbons that were scattered about the room in dishes in case anyone felt the need of more to eat . |
| 13 | Abdu was now a considerable patriarch who moved about the lounge in the evenings in a splendid white gallibaya which did much to hide his enormous paunch . |
| 14 | Doreen moved about the office in a restless manner , giving the impression that she wanted to talk , yet not knowing how to begin . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | ‘ Did you know about the heroin in those tubes of toothpaste ? ’ |
| 17 | When she had chosen the least remarkable and staggered downstairs in a pair of high-heeled purple boots the others got their revenge by wheezing about the room in hysterics once more . |
| 18 | I know that all my readers are keen to know about the knitting in Australia , but it was a working holiday , and I must tell you a little about the ‘ holiday ’ . |
| 19 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 20 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 21 | Did you yourself come to know about the article in the Telegraph ? |
| 22 | But Conservative and Labour partisans who disagreed about the bias in their daily papers were reading different papers . |
| 23 | In his paper ‘ Analysis Terminable and Interminable ’ ( 1937 ) , which belongs to the same period of Freud 's life as Moses and Monotheism , Freud writes about the way in which nearly all women patients show signs of wishing to be men , and men seek to avoid taking a passive attitude towards other men , including a male therapist . |
| 24 | All the time he and Rufus were living it up , driving about the countryside in Goblander , driving to London once to buy marijuana from the dealer Rufus knew in Notting Hill , drinking and smoking ( as he had put it ) Hilbert 's furniture away , all that time Vivien and her boyfriend Shiva were making arrangements to join Ecalpemos . |
| 25 | The good thing about a spreadsheet is that you do not need to worry about the order in which you list items — you can sort on any field later . |
| 26 | And he began to worry about the body in the garden . |
| 27 | She had made it clear to the woman that she had strong Nazi sympathies , and often attempted to talk about the war in the desert , but to no avail . |
| 28 | He did not want to talk about the woman in Dundalk , though , the double life , the scenes and drunken violence . |
| 29 | Writing about the novel in 1 927 , Eliot stated that ‘ nearly every contemporary novel known to me is either directly affected by a study of psycho-analysis , or affected by the atmosphere created by psycho-analysis , or inspired by a desire to escape from psycho-analysis … |
| 30 | Anthony Burgess , writing about the biography in the Literary Review , was at his most Burgessish , beginning : ‘ That title is misleading , as is the identical declaration on the poet 's tombstone . |