Example sentences of "about the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the bit at the top of page two , which says that still do n't use them in York |
| 2 | I 'm very sorry about the disturbance at the restaurant and that we had to cut the interview short . |
| 3 | And she said what about the bed at the Cottage Hospital ? |
| 4 | We were inundated with entries for last issue 's Prize Wordsquare but there was little doubt about the winner at the end of the day . |
| 5 | Hamill assured them that he had sent telegrams on their behalf to Terence O'Neill and Harold Wilson protesting about the incident at the Guildhall . |
| 6 | Then he enquired , ‘ Did n't Celia , as a little girl , ever say anything to you about the incident at the Cove ? ’ |
| 7 | This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her . |
| 8 | She did not know about the incident at the Chagall museum , she knew nothing but her conviction that Joseph was a murderer . |
| 9 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 10 | presents than worry about the tree at the moment . |
| 11 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 12 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 13 | The results , published in 1979 , demonstrate the confusion and disarray about the curriculum at the local level . |
| 14 | Anne had talked so much about the gramophone at the Redmond house that Pat had bought a cabinet gramophone for the parlour , stipulating that the family must buy the records . |
| 15 | What sort of things about that phone call helped you make up your mind about the person at the other end of the phone . |
| 16 | Sorry about the scene at the restaurant . |
| 17 | On a personal level there was an album signed by a host of well-wishers in the Company and a spoof edition of the front page of BNFL News with some revealing ‘ facts ’ about the man at the top . |
| 18 | Tell me about the man at the exhibition . ’ |
| 19 | You may , of course , add to your letter later in writing or say more about the case at the Appeal Committee hearing . |
| 20 | This is perhaps what is most satisfying about the conflagration at the end — the child/ builder/master mason has knocked down his tower of bricks . |
| 21 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 22 | ‘ Because there was something foul about the set-up at the Jenner Clinic , and they do n't want it made public . ’ |
| 23 | Police are questioning a man about the fire at the Microfilm Express laboratories at Radley in Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | In Washington D.C. , the American Arts Alliance sent every member of Congress a stack of blue ‘ Post-it ’ note pads , with a fact about the NEA at the bottom of each sheet . |
| 25 | Erm , well my question about the break-in at the Kingsway flats launderette , erm in the launderette the facilities are controlled by a vending machine built into the wall . |
| 26 | Mrs Rosalia Alderley looked about the library at the gleaming , polished wood , the dust-free shelves and the shining leather bindings on the many volumes stacked upon them , and brought her gaze back to Theda 's face . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , old chap , I 'm sorry about the note at the club . |
| 28 | I explained about the impasse at the door of the horse car . |
| 29 | Or the stress of worrying about the puzzle at the heart of the village ? |
| 30 | Across the green , Doctor Lovell heard for the first time about the accident at the old people 's homes , and was magnanimous enough not to make any comment about Edward Young 's steps in front of his partners . |