Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 2 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 3 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
| 4 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 5 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 6 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 7 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 8 | The Archbishop arrived in Munich between performances of La finta giardiniera , and although he was not to hear the work himself , he learnt about it from the Elector and his family : |
| 9 | Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over . |
| 10 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 11 | It would be technically possible , for instance , to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world , akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population . |
| 12 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 13 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 14 | I first heard about it after the game at Liverpool last Saturday and I stormed in and said I do n't want to get away . |
| 15 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |
| 16 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 17 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 18 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 19 | Nobody talked about it in the classes , only the birth and the pregnancy , not about the baby afterwards , or how you will feel . |
| 20 | They were , in fact , probing towards the central issue of the Watergate affair : not who planned it , but who knew about it from the start and who had ordered the cover-up . |
| 21 | He thought about it over the weekend and accepted . |
| 22 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 23 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 24 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 25 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 26 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 27 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 28 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 29 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 30 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |