Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped being embarrassed about him and thought . |
| 2 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 3 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 4 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 5 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 6 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 7 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 8 | " I 've been told about your act . |
| 9 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 10 | ‘ And that 's another thing I 've been told about you : that you 're very ambitious . ’ |
| 11 | No , I 've been told about it . |
| 12 | One of the most frequent questions I have been asked about roses goes something like this : ‘ I bought some of the variety x when it was first exhibited at Chelsea and the other shows . |
| 13 | Mr Parker Bowles , 52 , said he had not personally read the latest newspaper reports but added : ‘ I have been told about it . ’ |
| 14 | It was all so quick and effortless that she wondered whether she 'd been mistaken about his intentions . |
| 15 | She pulled herself together with an effort , trying to remember what she 'd been told about wine-tasting , holding the glass carefully by the stem , and sniffing delicately . |
| 16 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 17 | But how can you have a good time when you keep being reminded about ‘ the gulf between people who have stuff and the people who have shit ’ , or that ‘ the world does n't make sense [ to me ] any more ’ ? |
| 18 | On Jan. 31 , 1990 , Thatcher admitted that she had been misled about the extent of the subversion campaign , while on Feb. 7 the House of Commons select committee on defence announced that it was to hold an inquiry into the MOD 's handling of the affair . |
| 19 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 20 | If however , you had been mistaken about the location of and and the assignments had been reversed , the effective starting-points would be and and the movement towards equality would involve a loss to and a gain to of , yielding a net gain of 83-10-9 as by construction . |
| 21 | ‘ I presume you have been briefed about the Ngune breakout ? ’ |
| 22 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |
| 23 | I thought well that 's fair comment cos there 's people 's houses I 'd stay away from cos I do n't like the wives , so I mean , you know , that 's , I do n't go round , but the thing is she 's been gone about what three year now , four year or something or however long it is why do n't she come now ? |
| 24 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 25 | And this is one of many ways in which ordinary communication between people depends on our having a very powerful memory , having the ability to look out for situations that we 've been warned about , and to take action in accordance with instructions that we 've been given previously and have stored up . |
| 26 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 27 | We have been warned about global warming , but even more urgent is the threat to public health . |
| 28 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 29 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 30 | Perhaps they had been mistaken about Wang Sau-leyan . |