Example sentences of "[vb past] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the snail darter case the justices of the Supreme Court argued about the proper way to read the Environmental Protection Act . |
| 2 | Well , I must admit I got about the bottom mark . |
| 3 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 4 | Secondly , he cared about the intellectual question in religious life . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman asked about the new director general designate 's previous work . |
| 6 | He asked about the regional conference . |
| 7 | and er you know if they did erm I mean Martin asked about the , he asked about the good wood guide you know and I told them where they can get it but that they can have it in their office and put it in their library . |
| 8 | Nobody asked about the French couple . |
| 9 | Here the different ways of seeing ‘ women in film ’ , especially in the controversies over realism , over documentary film-making , over the gaze and over representations of sexuality , converged , for once , in the serious questions those four women asked about the feminist film debate which I have outlined above . |
| 10 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 11 | Later , when the Porter came out on to the platform , Peter asked about the white line . |
| 12 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) asked about the Scottish Development Agency investment in Stagecoach . |
| 13 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 14 | Alexandra learnt to live with it , and her unfailing courtesy and thoughtfulness brought her closer to the elderly Queen , in spite of whatever misgivings they both shared about the erring Prince . |
| 15 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 16 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 17 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 20 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 21 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 22 | She lay beside her uncle , her brother , and several near neighbours , the fresh earth of the recent interment scattered and scuffed about the leaf-strewn path of the Necropolis , city of the dead . |
| 23 | They disagreed about the implicit extension of these supposed legal conventions . |
| 24 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 25 | When Anna was first told about it in Rome by that ass of a young man , when she learnt about the old truth , the long lie , she cried out it was a bolt from a clear sky shattering her life . |
| 26 | It 's packed full of training , nutritional and medical advice , plus it keep you informed about the latest research taking place in this country and abroad . |
| 27 | The Sunday Express speculated about the next primate and thought that Ramsey probably ruled himself out by his partisan behaviour in attending the eucharistic congress . |
| 28 | Hornbeam moved as smoothly as a snake , creeper twisted , ivy writhed about the mossy bark , reaching towards her , its soft and furry touch tickling as it wound about her skin . |
| 29 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 30 | Of course I forgot about the sleeping child . |