Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 2 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 3 | And because I loved him , and he was unhappy , I tried to forget about the sea . |
| 4 | He tried to think about the Wall . |
| 5 | Moreover , when I actually stopped to think about the problem I became uncomfortably aware that it was very unlikely that I would be able to obtain such commitment . |
| 6 | I tried to enquire about the uncle and the boats . |
| 7 | Interestingly , the only doubts that Western scientists seemed to express about the viability of the project concerned this deadline . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be … well , interesting to know just how you came to hear about the infant 's birth , and why you felt this birth was … well , interesting . |
| 9 | But no-one seemed to care about the cost — Rome was too busy surfing on spumante , giddy with the success of its new plaything . |
| 10 | Whenever these arguments showed signs of running out of steam , we turned to complain about the inadequacy of the supporting papers . |
| 11 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 12 | And then his thoughts wandered again and he began to worry about the speed with which the vegetation was growing around the ramparts . |
| 13 | And he began to worry about the body in the garden . |
| 14 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 15 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 16 | Suddenly , he stood upright , held out his hands like paws , then bunched up the tails of his huge brown coat in front of his stomach to convey an impression of the kangaroo 's pouch , and began to bounce about the room . |
| 17 | The striped shirt man now began to talk about the portfolio . |
| 18 | Beside him , Clarac began to talk about the progress they had made , the difficulties they had overcome , but Berdichev was hardly listening . |
| 19 | There was a pause ; the Health chairman began to talk about the need for hospitals near roads ; accidents would happen , victims would need care . |
| 20 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 21 | Baldwin at once began to talk about the walk they would have the following morning , and suggested that they should eschew the subject of coal for the evening . |
| 22 | ‘ This is the story of how God created the world , ’ and he began to talk about the light and the darkness , the coming of the sky and the sea , the fish and the animals and of Adam and Eve . |
| 23 | Soon the demands grew so heavy the photocopier could not cope , and originals began to fly about the system . |
| 24 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 25 | She suppressed an embarrassed chortle as the men began to chat about the paper . |
| 26 | After the routine admiration of children , garden , and so on , they began to chat about the office . |
| 27 | I also took part in conferences of Burma missionaries in Lahore , Lucknow and Mussourie , in which we began to think about the revival of our considerable educational work . |
| 28 | It was that point in the morning when people usually began to think about the soup and potatoes that were expected shortly , rather than about the books they were reading . |
| 29 | Again she began to think about the murder of her brother-in-law . |
| 30 | He began to fail about the middle of 1588 and probably died in January 1589 . |