Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time Mrs Ireland had to make her decision alone and that was horrendously difficult to do , especially as it involved deciding about the future care of her husband . |
| 2 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 3 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 4 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 5 | The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular . |
| 6 | But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law . |
| 7 | While John Carter waited in custody , local police began wondering about the strange disappearance of the farmer 's second wife . |
| 8 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 9 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |
| 10 | The moment passed , her mother began talking about the late roses in her flowerbeds and Rachel was just thinking she 'd got away with not mentioning David Markham , when her father said , ‘ Talking of OBEX , we wanted to check the date of the Family Day with you . ’ |
| 11 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 12 | Relieved by unloading her bombshell , Jonquil began to move about the forlorn little shop , examining books . |
| 13 | We started to talk about the solar system . |
| 14 | He started blustering about the general election and an end to the inflationary spiral . |
| 15 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 16 | Thérèse loved hearing about the padded silver suit of the terrifying and sad white clown . |
| 17 | So even someone as obviously corrupt as Richard Nixon , people started talking about the new Nixon , new Nixon the statesman . |
| 18 | … loved to learn about the natural world … |
| 19 | Then he started to think about the other case , the poisoning of a whole family group at No. 22 , Church Row . |
| 20 | Blunt still felt hurt about the old French woman . |
| 21 | Somehow he kept thinking about the whole affair and he was n't sure anymore about the skull ; should he have moved it ? |
| 22 | And one thing he did know about the real Sandra was that she had a very low tolerance for boredom , and that she got bored very easily . |
| 23 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 24 | And when , after the girl had gone , Laura had gazed about the chaotic-looking living-room , she 'd had to agree that it was n't up to her standards , either . |
| 25 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |
| 26 | She had heard about the little boy Grégoire — Jean-Paul 's son , so people said . |
| 27 | If Richard had heard about the old Angevin claim when he began work on a castle within the political orbit of Châtellerault he probably thought it had long since lapsed . |
| 28 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 29 | Thanks to American backing , they no longer had to worry about the small size of the British market , the limitations of the native cinematic culture or their responsibility to show Britain on the screen . |
| 30 | He did not care whether or not Gunhilda had ever made her profession : she had worn the habit ; she had seemed to understand what Anselm had said about the religious life . |