Example sentences of "[vb past] about [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works . |
| 2 | Women orbited about surfers on the beach ; they clung to them in cars ; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons . |
| 3 | Once home , she was surprised to find she slept soundly but woke about noon with the appearance of fever . |
| 4 | It seemed about par for the course , so I applied , was interviewed and then offered the job , all in reasonably quick time . |
| 5 | Furthermore , he must keep them informed about progress of the project — what they will get , when they will get it , and what it will cost . |
| 6 | ‘ Funny thing happened about money during the war . |
| 7 | Catherine seemed to be unconscious , and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment . |
| 8 | Stella heard about O'Hara from the child playing Slightly , so called because when his mother had abandoned him his vest had been slightly soiled . |
| 9 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 10 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 12 | Now , this is not an Oxford cartoon either , but it 's a looting soldier , and very much , I think , underlines what people felt about soldiers around the place , and to go back to the overcrowding , erm the great problem was that constantly not only soldiers , but a great many other people , court officials , court servants , barbers , whoever , erm all had to found accommodation , and because St Aldate 's was so near the court , a great many of them were of course connected with the court , they had some high ranking ones . |
| 13 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 14 | He also knew about work in the USA and USSR from the mid 1970s on metallic hydrogen . |
| 15 | He thought about Hasan at the swimming-baths . |
| 16 | But it is important that these arguments do not lead the world to forget what it learned about aid during the past 30 years . |
| 17 | Because you spoke about Heather in the present tense , as if you genuinely believe she 's still alive . ’ |
| 18 | Jesus spoke about forgiveness in the Lord 's prayer : ‘ If you forgive others when they sin against you , your heavenly Father will also forgive you . ’ |
| 19 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 20 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 21 | I do not dissent from much of what the hon. Member for Wakefield said about members of the Prison Officers Association . |
| 22 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 23 | We delivered it locally from a pony and trap and I do n't suppose we made all that much until they wrote about Mother in the London newspaper . |
| 24 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |