Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 2 | That 's a big chunk of the population and I worried about the hardship that I was causing as a result of what was really a commercial decision . ’ |
| 3 | and I laughed about the onlookers asking each other ‘ Who are they ? ’ and trying to place us . |
| 4 | I hoped so , and I was going to take the risk of finding out , but then Bill started talking about your once-in-a-lifetime chance to travel , and I thought about the fact that I 'm thirty-four and you 're twenty-two … ’ |
| 5 | The make-up girl went to work on me as Duncan and I reminisced about the last time we 'd worked together . |
| 6 | So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so |
| 7 | ‘ Bill and I talked about the amniocentesis for a long time tonight , and we 've decided against it . ’ |
| 8 | To the swans MY son and I read about the brutal attack upon the swans at Mill Pond , and were very upset by it . |
| 9 | They are n't , and I wonder about the mentality of their keepers. — . |
| 10 | ‘ Mrs Kennedy Smith and I chatted about the people who had left the area for America in the 1800s . |
| 11 | You 've got to live in their world if you gon na affect that change , if you do n't live in their world and only live your own , if you do n't recognise , er , the problems that they 're making in terms of change happens , and those are the that you are going to give into the So yes , you can think about yourself and and others , and you can think about the reasons , and you think about the priorities , about planning , about structure level . |
| 12 | And you learn about the real necessity of acting and thinking for yourself . |
| 13 | You relate as two real adults who probably share values and attitudes , enjoy many of the same things , doing them together and who care about the well-being and happiness of one another . |
| 14 | She understood his grief and his sense of loss and loneliness — she had been there herself , after the King 's death — and she knew about the feelings of despair and the long , long time the scars would take to heal , but she also knew about the importance of carrying on . |
| 15 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 16 | So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so |
| 17 | They had left the hospital grounds now , and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car . |
| 18 | Carl gives Anna the newspaper and she reads about the princess , and about Carl . |
| 19 | And she said about the she said about this er when they made this malt . |
| 20 | My small daughter was with me in town and she complained about the smell , so it should be done . |
| 21 | He snores and she complains about the lack of a good cup of tea . |
| 22 | And she knows about the boy . ’ |
| 23 | I know it 's not your fault , but you come here and we chat about the family , I say too much and , suddenly , we 're talking about murder ! ’ |
| 24 | We knew about the social side and we knew about the , the shop was our shop . |
| 25 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 26 | My parents had had breakfast too , and we talked about the service . |
| 27 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 28 | ‘ And we talked about the books we were reading . |
| 29 | Having done that we then talked about the problem that we all have on these sorts of occasions which is the problem of nerves and we talked about the symptoms of dry voice and the shaking limbs the the wonky voice and the reasons why we have er these nerves and we also talked about the causes of the the primitive instinct of fight or flight er how we get get our body ready to handle this unusual situation . |
| 30 | Susanna still comes to visit me sometimes , and we talk about the old days . |