Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 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 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 11 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 12 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 13 | I myself flatly refused to believe Darwin 's theory when I first heard about it as a child . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | I heard about it from a neighbour this year … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We talked about her for a long time , and I think our Chairman was impressed . |
| 18 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nobody talked about it in the classes , only the birth and the pregnancy , not about the baby afterwards , or how you will feel . |
| 23 | Schellenberg brooded about it for a moment . |
| 24 | The girl stood swaying slightly , but she stared about her in a belligerent manner , as though challenging someone to answer her . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He thought about it over the weekend and accepted . |
| 27 | They thought about it for a while . |
| 28 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 29 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 30 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |