Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only heard about the decision yesterday afternoon . |
| 2 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 3 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 4 | They only wrote about the district . |
| 5 | They suddenly worried about their jobs , or their mortgages , or their children 's schooling . |
| 6 | They just worried about themselves |
| 7 | I thought they just pratted about |
| 8 | They always talked about it . |
| 9 | Which , of course , they once said about pop music . |
| 10 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 11 | Maybe it 's the only thing they ever dreamt about . ’ |
| 12 | They also sang about their own lives and in their own accents so it became really unique . |
| 13 | They also asked about the children 's behaviour . |
| 14 | At their meeting in a London Methodist centre for homeless and rootless people they also talked about Diana 's recent marriage problems . |
| 15 | They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches . |
| 16 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 17 | Alexandra learnt to live with it , and her unfailing courtesy and thoughtfulness brought her closer to the elderly Queen , in spite of whatever misgivings they both shared about the erring Prince . |
| 18 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 19 | A series of what came to be called ‘ prejudice sessions ’ , encouraged people across the business to say what they really thought about BP Oil — or thought they thought . |
| 20 | And , if they could show him that they really cared about the Store , he would come out again and put a stop to all these problems and re-establish the Store here , in this green unpleasant land . |
| 21 | If these people wanted to d if these people wanted to c and they really cared about conservation and education they 'd do what the care for the wild have done . |
| 22 | Some other forces throughout the region , if they even thought about it , appear to have turned a blind eye . |
| 23 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 24 | They never cared about me , did they ? ’ |
| 25 | Let , yeah , let them do it cos they never moaned about it being |
| 26 | They actually spoke about in at the place right enough . |