Example sentences of "was about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , that came back after all that time erm , no this this was the call called The Birthday it was about a split in the future where she erm |
| 2 | The original Disneyland was about a fantasy castle , a few rides and a cast of cute , costumed characters that children adored . |
| 3 | The other film was about a conflict between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ leaders in agricultural cooperatives soon after Liberation . |
| 4 | One was about a Machine hit man who emerges from early retirement when his wife is slain by a serial murderer . |
| 5 | It was about a metre long and as thick as his wrist . |
| 6 | The pit was about a metre and a half deep . |
| 7 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 8 | It was about a 70-mile drive away , if not more , and I went up there and was given a drink and introduced to a few people , and then I opened the fête … and never saw anyone again . |
| 9 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 10 | He was about a tonne weight . |
| 11 | Well you used to took er take one length bet from one s er erm er straw up to the other , that was about a yard . |
| 12 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 13 | " What they was quarrelling about I could n't take it on myself to say , except that it was about a lady , and that Dr. Lorrimer was upset because she 'd telephoned Mr. Middlemass . |
| 14 | The film , Mr Sardonicus , was about a man whose face has frozen into a wide and terrible corpse-like grin . |
| 15 | It was about a man , who , while eating out with his wife one evening , falls in love with a man he sees in the restaurant . |
| 16 | One question was about a man who won £2000 in a competition and the way in which he shared the prize money , his wife getting nothing and each of his sons more than their ( older ) sister . |
| 17 | See I did n't , I , I , and he gave me , I was here , oh I do n't know if it was about a fortnight ago I was here . |
| 18 | It was about a fortnight after I arrived in Punta Arenas that he showed me his journal and I was able to take a translation of those entries . |
| 19 | Well , I think it was about a fortnight |
| 20 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 21 | Jean Henderson , who worked until her marriage ( at the age of 29 ) in 1912 , walked to work in Rose Street , and later to Canonmills , from her home in the Pleasance which was about a mile away . |
| 22 | Liston Hall was about a mile and a half further on , reached by its own private drive . |
| 23 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |
| 24 | When I put my front paws on my lady 's shoulders , I was about a foot taller than her . |
| 25 | The gap was about a foot and a half wide — wide enough for Sigarup to sit in the basket with his legs hanging down below . |
| 26 | Standing , he was about a foot taller than me . |
| 27 | And it was a terrible winter that winter , there was about a foot of snow on the ground and I remember Slayney 's moved us with er er a pair of horses and er and er a little removal van . |
| 28 | The grille was about a foot square . |
| 29 | Peering through the gloom , Lucy saw that it was about a foot high , its tailless , cone-shaped body covered with loose , shaggy hair-like brown plumage , tapering to a small head . |
| 30 | The paper-stripper was about a foot long and nine inches wide . |