Example sentences of "about a [noun] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling hampered , Stephen managed to plow on with a story about a Yale graduate who was in prison for fighting the Vietnam draft . |
| 2 | Next day , as soon as I 'd finished giving a police statement about a drug addict who had threatened me and attempted to steal syringes and prescriptions , I went to see her in hospital . |
| 3 | Derek , of The Avenue , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough said : ‘ Death Of A Gasholder is about a poetry gang who get a grant from the local authority . |
| 4 | I 'm the drummer the dragon boats arise from an ancient chinese legend about a council official who drowned himself because of the poor service the people were getting . |
| 5 | A story about a R.A.F. Flight-Sergeant who noticed that a recruit was still wearing his hat in church . |
| 6 | Tonight we went to a film all about a peasant leader who had to fight against some bad elements in his village , it was good and funny in parts . |
| 7 | The film is about a getaway driver who decides to cast aside his criminal life , seeking refuge in the Suffolk countryside , where he falls in love , marries and starts a family , but his former associates do not want to lose him . |
| 8 | Typical are the films written by T. E. B. Clarke , such as Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ) , about a community whose discovery that it is an independent Burgundian principality enables the inhabitants to forget for a while the realities of post-war austerity , and The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) , about a bank clerk who robs a bank . |
| 9 | One straight-forward case — involving a " Police 5 " message about a confidence trickster who had used a name belonging to an innocent plaintiff — had consequences devastatingly described by Lord Diplock : " This is an ordinary simple case of libel . |
| 10 | As a matter of police practice , firearms practice what would you say about a police officer who stuck the gun at any at the back of someone 's neck ? |
| 11 | Roland listened politely and said , ‘ Do you know anything about a Miss LaMotte who wrote children 's stories and religious poetry in the 1850s or thereabouts ? ’ |
| 12 | A train swaying between Kingston and Norbiton and New Malden , and a member of the permanent staff of the Service talking with a stranger about a freelance recruit who had been snaffled . |
| 13 | THE CRYING GAME : Atmospheric drama about an IRA volunteer who guards a kidnapped British squaddie . |
| 14 | 13 ( — ) THE CRYING GAME : Drama about an IRA volunteer who guards a kidnapped British squaddie . |
| 15 | 9 ( 13 ) THE CRYING GAME : Atmospheric drama about an IRA volunteer who guards a kidnapped British squaddie . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's about an advertising man who gets disillusioned with the business , and who with the co-operation of his incredibly efficient and wonderful butler escapes to Provence . |