Example sentences of "[verb] about [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
| 3 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 4 | I 'll think about it on the way home . ’ |
| 5 | If there 's a traffic jam anywhere the new information unit will let you know about it on the hour as well . |
| 6 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 8 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 9 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 10 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 11 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |
| 12 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 14 | She was talking about you on the phone recently . |
| 15 | We were talking about it on the way back . |
| 16 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it 's good news , but I ca n't talk about it on the telephone . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , there was a little problem , but I do n't think I 'd better talk about it on the phone . ’ |
| 19 | It was impossible to be afraid ; but impossible not to be alert , alive , crisp in every sensation , glad in the headlong abundance of reviving life that washed about them on every side . |