Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly I thought about going with my dad . |
| 2 | Right I mentioned about er about questions , fire away as , as you think about it . |
| 3 | Basically everyone raved about Leeds that day — and Tuesday was a comfortable if a little uninspired . |
| 4 | As I watched her turn and bend and lie back , oiled and tanned , her supple contours powered by a madness only I knew about , the idea that Karen ‘ was n't my type ’ seemed a quaint irrelevance . |
| 5 | When the excitement had died down I thought about my family , of all their help and sacrifices over the years and of the hardships they had undergone to bring us all up . |
| 6 | So I learnt about the Greeks and Romans , and about Christ , and about the first white men in America and the sad story of the Indians . |
| 7 | So I thought about what had happened to me and to people I knew , and put it all in the book . |
| 8 | So I thought about using porcelain instead . |
| 9 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |
| 10 | So I got about ten twenty five |
| 11 | So I forgot about him , at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant . |
| 12 | growth as well , so I wondered about er say thirty thousand in investment trusts , or perhaps |
| 13 | And so nobody thought about invoking the coal mines act , you just had to go , and er and I went . |
| 14 | But when she wanted to write about herself , which only she knew about , then she wrote it alone . |
| 15 | B Wilson He was also the only person who tipped Linfield to win the championship last season but perhaps you forgot about that . |
| 16 | That was all she knew about Lucy sexually . |
| 17 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
| 18 | Her daughter 's safety was all she cared about . |
| 19 | He really did believe that money was all she cared about ! |
| 20 | So she thought about Baby , not sad thoughts but ordinary ones . |
| 21 | Oh so you knew about the Henry Moore statue there ? |
| 22 | So you talked about |
| 23 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 24 | So who cared about having a too-honest face ? |
| 25 | Goods were cheap , so who cared about service ? |
| 26 | I 'd ask him to clean the bath when he got out or occasionally hoover , but he would n't so we rowed about that , especially after he got made redundant . |
| 27 | So we agreed about tea , and invited Father D'Arcy to join us . |
| 28 | So we talked about other things . |
| 29 | So we talked about the edge . |
| 30 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |