Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 2 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 3 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 4 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 5 | Sylvie gazed at him queerly , thought about what the woman had said . |
| 6 | Here 's what I did : just at the moment the tears were about to gush out over the waterproof liner , taking the soft lenses in a Niagara-like descent towards the jawbone , I looked at a poster or a newspaper and thought about what the words meant . |
| 7 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 8 | In fact , the more she had thought about it the more convinced she had become . |
| 9 | Constant liaison at the appropriate level is therefore necessary to avoid a situation arising where problems have occurred about which the supplier is not aware . |
| 10 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 11 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 12 | questions were being raised about what the police were doing , what they ought to be doing and how they ought to be organised and accountable . |
| 13 | Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing . |
| 14 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 15 | ‘ Then clearly I have n't gone about it the right way . ’ |
| 16 | Law-enforcement officials say the fear now is that the terrorists that blew up Pan Am 103 somehow learned about what the DEA was doing , infiltrated the undercover operation and substituted the bomb for the heroin in one of the DEA shipments . |
| 17 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 18 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 19 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |