Example sentences of "about [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 2 | ‘ I presume you 've read about this body they found in Clerkenwell ? ’ he said . |
| 3 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 4 | It 's about some people they were in a car and they had an accident and they knocked down a boy , that was riding on his bike . |
| 5 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 6 | They 'd been delighted therefore to renew acquaintanceship at the beginning of the tour ; and thereafter had spent many an hour together , talking about old comrades they 'd known — those who 'd come through , and those who had n't … and reminiscing about some of the ‘ local talent ’ the GIs had been only too happy to discover , in Oxford itself and in some of the surrounding towns and villages . |
| 7 | If she starts talking about sexual matters they may jump in hastily , saying , ‘ Do n't talk about that ’ without explaining why they are disturbed by what she has said . |
| 8 | The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ They have told me about these steps they have taken to check this out and I 'm really delighted with their attitude . |
| 10 | one thing about these places they 're nice and warm . |
| 11 | Zuwaya asserted in political discussion that no man was better than another ( a principle used in argument , rather than as a guide to action ) ; but when they spoke about distributive justice they put little emphasis on economic egalitarianism . |
| 12 | people and telling them all these things about things they do n't really know much about like drugs they take in what |
| 13 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 14 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 15 | Because if you start getting if you get bogged down with discussing people about other products they 'll think you 're either gon na be doing them |
| 16 | I 've thought about next thing they 'll do is holograms next . |