Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | People throughout the world suddenly became much better informed about radiation hazards . |
| 2 | This bloke here has only just come about fifteen miles up the road . |
| 3 | To his surprise he finds himself basically in agreement on a wide range of questions which he has never really thought about before . |
| 4 | Pip has never really thought about his features until this point and from then on wants to be a gentleman because he has instantly fallen in love with Estella and wants to impress her , and make her love him . |
| 5 | He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her . |
| 6 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 7 | But he 'd never really thought about the insides . |
| 8 | He 'd never really thought about it before today . |
| 9 | She 'd like to see a key worker allocated to each patient and families made more fully informed about treatment . |
| 10 | By accurate and sensible reporting , mirrored by intelligent coverage in the press and on the radio , the public could become much better informed about mental handicap and this increased awareness could have a tremendous impact on the ways that our mentally handicapped population are perceived in modern society . |
| 11 | Apart from working on the teaching unit which is under development he will need to keep very well informed about new techniques in programming , new hardware , etc . |
| 12 | I 've only just read about this old caddie you found murdered . |
| 13 | I 've only usually got about one pen . |
| 14 | For one thing he was an impatient sort of eagle , inclined to get angry and feel insulted at the smallest thing ; for another — and this took Creggan a while to realize — he was preoccupied with thinking about what had happened to Minch , not daring to hope that what Creggan had so boldly said about her coming back was true . |
| 15 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 16 | I could so easily have divided Charlie 's six per cent between Sal , Grace , and that awful Kitty , who had so obviously lied about her brother 's death . |
| 17 | He 'd never mentioned it to her and she had not even thought about it until now , but therein lay her escape . |
| 18 | She had not even thought about persuading Marek Nowak to write down what he had told her . |
| 19 | He grilled me severely about the attitude and background of the character , the place he would occupy in the programme , his point of view , and innumerable other aspects of Byron which I had not yet thought about . ’ |
| 20 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've just never thought about it . ’ |
| 22 | No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action . |
| 23 | Alison had probably never thought about getting . |
| 24 | Yet he also makes clear that a number of the best poets in his anthology were unbothered by developments in London : ‘ Some homely writers had clearly never heard about the requirements of polite taste ’ [ ECWP , p. xxvi ] . |
| 25 | Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them . |
| 26 | Jack suddenly remembered that he had n't sought out Ho Chan at school ; he had n't even thought about it . |
| 27 | This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine . |
| 28 | He had n't even listened about the curtains . |
| 29 | They had n't really talked about it . |
| 30 | Most of the people … had n't really thought about civil rights ; they had come , with a sort of friendly curiosity , to hear something . |