Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took myself off to my billet , feeling bloody frustrated and edgy , might I add , and thence to bed , where I thought about it . |
| 2 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 3 | After service they strolled down to the waterside , where they talked about stockings and the weaving of plaid ; ‘ What particular parts of commerce are chiefly exercised by the merchants of Aberdeen , I have not inquired , ’ wrote Johnson . |
| 4 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 5 | A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict . |
| 6 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 7 | I was wanted in Formula 1 , then I was n't , so I went about my own business , creating my own new future , then all of a sudden I 'm wanted again . |
| 8 | I was not prepared to travel 140 miles to and from work each day , nor to live away from home on a long term basis , so I inquired about part time training . |
| 9 | Okay , so I lied about the cuddly toy and the microwave , but I bet if ART could have got them into the Multiverb 's 1U , 19″ rack format they would have . |
| 10 | But I was grateful for her interest , so I explained about our Council 's scheme : the converted houses where the old ladies and gentlemen live , each with their separate apartments , their own furniture , but a common dining-room . |
| 11 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 12 | She made no effort to turn over , although she thought about it , imagined how it might be to lean on one elbow , to twist her body in a single movement . |
| 13 | She knew only marginally more about him than she did about Bella . |
| 14 | We have a big promotion of leisure wear by top French designers ; it 's a chance of a lifetime for any model and one Dana could n't miss once she knew about it . ’ |
| 15 | It was obvious — once you thought about it . |
| 16 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 17 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 18 | ‘ No sooner had everyone recovered from the trauma of having to reschedule the full-length play festival than we heard about Portadown . |
| 19 | And , again no doubt rightly , we need no more have illusions about the motives of those leading the coalition than we did about Stalin , Churchill or Roosevelt — the second world war analogy . |
| 20 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 21 | There was some programme she wanted to do , but I could n't do it , so we talked about our holidays . |
| 22 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 23 | But their music was really deep blues : Mississippi Delta stuff and so the feeling was the same , although they went about it differently … |
| 24 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 25 | What they suggest is that the roots of these activities lay deep in popular or folk culture but that ultimately the new urban manifestation of these activities revealed more about the values of the business classes than they did about the masses themselves . |
| 26 | Mind you , they did n't have the sense to do one , two , three , four , five , they were just doing lots of lines , so they got about |
| 27 | It was a fine , bright morning , so they wandered about the quay , watching the activity at Harlands and the dinghy sails farther down the lough . |
| 28 | Decent people could n't allow these places to exist once they knew about them . … |
| 29 | Although he talked about how ‘ we , as communists , essentially intend to work in harmony with nature ’ , he made it clear that this meant ‘ understanding and controlling the laws of nature … to place them at man 's service ’ . |
| 30 | Letters carne almost every day from John and although he talked about Hitler 's invasion of Russia and other war news , he always remembered to tell Anne that he loved her . |