Example sentences of "about [Wh det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 2 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 3 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 4 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 5 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 6 | I mean , what we know about what goes off in the courts , i is is entirely dependent on which particular reporter happens to be reporting . |
| 7 | No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city . |
| 8 | If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 9 | Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 10 | Captions on the screen can give brief information about what went on in the missing bits and how much time has elapsed . |
| 11 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 12 | ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’ |
| 13 | Of course , rumours abounded about what went on behind the barriers which prevented the common people from entering the districts where the Communist élite lived , but no one knew for sure . |
| 14 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 15 | They would talk about the weather , about what went on by the sea-coast , about Easterling pirates , about news from Lincoln , or Peterborough , or York , or Chester , but not about the forest . |
| 16 | Look , I was sorry about what happened round at the flat . |