Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Well , I must admit I got about the bottom mark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I learnt about the exploited conditions under which the peons and gauchos had to live . |
| 5 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |
| 6 | I forgot about the back pocket . |
| 7 | I read about the poor devil , that those buggers trumped up an espionage charge against him and he 's years to serve in Russia . |
| 8 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 10 | I know about the strange stains she found |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 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 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 16 | ‘ Now you know how I feel about the high school , ’ said Carrie . |
| 17 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 18 | I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I thought about the real taxi-drivers in London who took parties of kids to the seaside on day trips each year and realized just what courage was . |
| 21 | On my way upstairs I thought about the famous pianist . |
| 22 | The next day I thought about the possible dangers on the island . |
| 23 | I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . |
| 24 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 25 | I worried about the mythic trees you used to paint . |
| 26 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 27 | Yes , I agree about the full backs . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I think about the only nicknames that my mates have got |
| 30 | 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 . |