Example sentences of "he [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald . |
2 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
3 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
4 | Mills had apparently met a very loquacious Dennis Suit in a bar in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , and listened to him brag about the worldwide connections he had made in the course of his career as a self-proclaimed CIA agent . |
5 | I loved to hear him talk about the old days . ’ |
6 | Some days , when it 's damp , he has to use the stick inside , too , and I can hear him clacking about the uncarpeted rooms and corridors of the house ; a hollow noise , going from place to place . |
7 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
8 | Born again , a true believer , he did charity work : he cared about the poor and the disadvantaged … |
9 | Secondly , he cared about the intellectual question in religious life . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He asked about the regional conference . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | However , under the test derived from Caldwell , a person is not reckless if he thinks about the possible risk but decides that it does not obtain . |
14 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
15 | He read about the unemployed in newspapers and saw films about them on television , pacing across photogenic sections of contemporary Britain and muttering darkly about waste and emptiness . |
16 | Does he know about the poor little kiddy ? ’ |
17 | In his first piece for Esquire , he writes about the strange case of Lenny McLean ( page 88 ) . |
18 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
19 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
20 | Had he written about the great hunt , the rites of the warriors ? |
21 | How does he feel about the Swedish Lapps ? |
22 | All week-end he drove about the outer suburbs with Jannie and the boys , calling on relatives and letting fall the news in the course of conversation . |
23 | On his way round , via the Operations Room , he hears about the armed escort vehicles in hot pursuit of a police Hotspur Land-Rover , which in turn is giving chase to an orange Lada for minor motoring offences . |
24 | He glanced about the assembled company . |
25 | Consequently , it is rather amusing to have Gergiev tell you that the only thing he misses about the bad old days before perestroika is the order . |
26 | He talked about the European Commission 's social action programme . |
27 | ‘ Afterwards , he talked about the new position I gave him . |
28 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
29 | He talked about the rising cost in legal aid ; he talked about legal aid in other countries ; and he arbitrarily discounted the proposals in our alternative package . |
30 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |