Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] about " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I stopped being embarrassed about him and thought . |
| 2 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 3 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 4 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 9 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 10 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 11 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 12 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 17 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 18 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 19 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 20 | It was all so quick and effortless that she wondered whether she 'd been mistaken about his intentions . |
| 21 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 22 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 23 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 24 | She 'd been reading about how Egyptians believed cats guided your dreams , and dreamed that she was roaming around their flat from a cat 's point of view . |
| 25 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |