Example sentences of "he [vb past] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Born again , a true believer , he did charity work : he cared about the poor and the disadvantaged … |
| 3 | Secondly , he cared about the intellectual question in religious life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He asked about the regional conference . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And Stevens understood why , when he read about the 1986 food riots in Zambia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His enemies among the ancient geographers attacked him for what he reported about the mysterious North — Great Britain , Jutland , and whatever Thule was . |
| 10 | When she sank to the seat she had recently vacated he paced about a little and then swung to face her , his dark eyes angry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In another , and ostensibly more jocular , letter to her he speculated about a future race which might come across the name of T. S. Eliot and wonder who he was . |
| 13 | He glanced about the assembled company . |
| 14 | He talked about the European Commission 's social action programme . |
| 15 | ‘ Afterwards , he talked about the new position I gave him . |
| 16 | On 9 October I went to see Macmillan in the nursing home and he talked about the future leadership . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We have the president of the board of trade and industry making a stirring speech and saying that four hundred and forty proposals as a result of the booklet called cutting red tape were either being implemented or under active consideration and he talked about the explanatory guide to the bill , the new scrutiny committee that might be set up in each house , he spoke about the business task forces that had made over six hundred recommendations the debate I thought heralded was er er I thought the debate heralded er er a new age where over zealous officialdom would be a thing of the past . |
| 20 | He thought about the long , long fall and then the flames , way below . |
| 21 | He thought about the long hours , the continuous toil , the mistakes , the mishaps , the inefficiency and the constant battle to build what he now saw before him . |
| 22 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 23 | As he drew to a halt in front of the boomgate he thought about the unacceptable quantities of low-level toxic waste being expelled daily into the atmosphere by avaricious chemical companies with scant regard for the safety and welfare of future generations . |
| 24 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |
| 25 | He thought about the two girls in the shop doorway , surprised by the detailed impression they had left on his memory . |
| 26 | He thought about the soft ringing of the telephone bell , and the quiet whisper when he answered it . |
| 27 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 28 | He thought about the soaring , almost optimistic leap the Volkswagen would make as it cleared the edge of the cliff ( from Henry 's memory of it there was no safety barrier on that particular stretch of the Apennines ) . |
| 29 | At first Wexford felt a curious distaste and then he thought about the dead man and what he knew of him . |
| 30 | He smiled as he thought about the previous night . |