Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 2 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 3 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
| 5 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 6 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 7 | She thinks he 's forgotten about it in the rush of leaving for America . |
| 8 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 9 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 10 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 12 | I have also heard a story , however , about her being distinctly unamused by some of the things written about her in the newspapers . |
| 13 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 14 | But you also show great restraint over a lot of the stuff that 's written about you in the press , a lot of which is ill-informed gossip . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 16 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 17 | A blanket wrapped about him against the cold , his bravest warriors at his flanks , Joseph rides out to make peace with Generals Miles and Howard , and their officers , in the Bear Paws Mountains , 5th October 1877 . |
| 18 | And the shape Aldhelm would present was that of a man young by his step and pace , in a dun-coloured cloak wrapped about him against the rain , and with the pointed hood drawn up over his head . |
| 19 | I had n't thought about it at the time |
| 20 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 21 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 22 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 23 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 24 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
| 25 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 26 | The position regarding the supply of arms to Syria remains as it was when Ministers were last questioned about it in the House . |
| 27 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 28 | She had read about him in the newspapers , seen him once or twice on television , seen photographs of him in magazines . |
| 29 | Hawk had read about him in the newsfax , but rarely watched teevee , and so had never seen his face before . |
| 30 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |