Example sentences of "about [Wh det] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city .
2 If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement .
3 Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement .
4 Captions on the screen can give brief information about what went on in the missing bits and how much time has elapsed .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Look , I was sorry about what happened round at the flat .
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