Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read about the poor devil , that those buggers trumped up an espionage charge against him and he 's years to serve in Russia . |
| 2 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What 's this I hear about the dreaded Wullie ? ’ |
| 5 | I know about the strange stains she found |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 11 | ‘ Now you know how I feel about the high school , ’ said Carrie . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no-one in the world that thinks more than I do about every goddam f—ing thing that happens with us . ’ |
| 13 | I feel this profoundly as I wander about the empty railway station , where I have no business of any kind . |
| 14 | Yes , I agree about the full backs . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I think about the only nicknames that my mates have got |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Specifically I dream about the old man 's parchment hands with their cheroot fingers , endlessly rolling the container in his hand , this movement polishing and burnishing it , an insistent but unexplained movement of the sort that happens in dreams . |
| 20 | While I appreciate the point you make about the long standing nature of your request I must advise you that there are many similar locations throughout the Region where there is inadequate space to provide a bus shelter . |
| 21 | If you find that you worry about the imagined outcome of the bout and fear the worst or if you have a racing pulse , then I would say you are over-aroused and in danger of throwing everything away . |
| 22 | You see , in spite of all you read About the nasty banks , We ‘ re mostly very nice indeed But seldom get the thanks . |
| 23 | Say what you like about the first-past-the-post system , but it does let you know who has actually won each seat . |
| 24 | It is very important to keep our name and work in the public eye and if you know about a suitable event , but feel you can not cope with it yourself , please contact me for help . |
| 25 | Well , that does n't sound very sophisticated to say , these are the questions when you just write everything you know about a particular issue . |
| 26 | Tell me what you know about the Medieval Circle . ’ |
| 27 | You have forgotten everything you know about the Inspiral Carpets . |
| 28 | I would have done it differently — OK , you know about the blind garden . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose you know about the little hut ? ’ |
| 30 | Fuck me I think you get about a grand interest a week from a million , so living off 500quid a week ai nt too bad ( and you should be working so that s extra ) . |