Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 2 | He tried to think about the Wall . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received about the home improvement grants scheme . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received about the level of parliamentary representation from England ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 5 | To ask the Lord President of the Council what representations he has received about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about the level of expenditure on maintenance for Cleveland 's schools ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received about the future strength of the Territorial Army in Scotland . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent representations he has received about the speed with which motorway repairs are undertaken . |
| 9 | ‘ They break the rules because Bawden cares less for rules than for the things he has to say about the feel of a summer morning , the watery sunshine of an April afternoon , or the flurry of a February snowstorm . ’ |
| 10 | He has heard about the ‘ Hello curse ’ , where loving couples tell in the glossy how good life is together … and immediately head for a break-up . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State must reflect a little on the answer that he has given about the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Subsequently A finds the original certificate and , either because he has forgotten about the sale to B or because he is a rogue , then purports to sell the shares to C. The company will rightly refuse to register C whose only remedy will be against A ( who may by this time be a man-of-straw ) unless he can successfully invoke against the company the so-called doctrine of estoppel by share certificate . |
| 13 | Although certainly no fan of Guns N'Roses and their offensive lyrics , I am pleased that he has spoken about the still largely-hidden subject of male sexual assault . |
| 14 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 15 | He declines to talk about the club 's financial position . |
| 16 | With foreigners applauding him , he may wonder whether he needs to worry about the disorganised ANC . |
| 17 | He stopped thinking about the amount of jam he was taking and leant back in his chair . |
| 18 | He starts thinking about the photos . |
| 19 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 20 | He 'd heard about the jail 's reputation for handling violent and dangerous offenders . |
| 21 | She remembered him trying to tell her , sometimes , about the sky and the Thing and where nomes first came from , and she 'd never really understood , any more than he 'd understood about the little frogs . |
| 22 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 23 | That also annoyed Patterson as he 'd forgotten about the card . |
| 24 | He 'd forgotten about the booklet that he put forward on building regulations , the forward that he 'd put forward , so what he was asking to do was already Council policy that he initiated but forgot about . |
| 25 | They had talked about Northumberland — or , rather , Roman had talked and she had listened , at first apathetically , but gradually , as he 'd spoken about the Romans , she 'd become more and more fascinated . |
| 26 | Sometimes this is done quite deliberately — he refuses to think about the event at all — while at other times it is his subconscious mind which ensures that he is no longer troubled by it . |
| 27 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 28 | ‘ This is the story of how God created the world , ’ and he began to talk about the light and the darkness , the coming of the sky and the sea , the fish and the animals and of Adam and Eve . |
| 29 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 30 | And then his thoughts wandered again and he began to worry about the speed with which the vegetation was growing around the ramparts . |