Example sentences of "[verb] about they [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 2 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
| 3 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 4 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 5 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |