Example sentences of "was [verb] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McMahon works for Harvard 's Division of Engineering and Applied Physics , and he was consulted about the design of Harvard 's newest running track . |
| 2 | Fairly easy usually indicated that there was no problem provided adequate warning was given about the course and that there were no last minute emergencies . |
| 3 | I remember he was fascinated about the Nilson murders , the man who cut up bodies and melted them down in his garden . ’ |
| 4 | In yesterday 's Independent , growing concern was reported about the integrity of official statistics . |
| 5 | Yamaha should take solace from the thought that Senna was bitching about the power of the new V12 Honda , later saying he had been misquoted and that there was ‘ nothing fundamentally wrong ’ with the new Honda . |
| 6 | ‘ It was over two months ago that I was approached about the job , terms were agreed and I was a part of Bill Fox 's presidential platform . |
| 7 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 8 | Part of it was nerves and excitement , he knew , but at this stage he knew nearly everything there was to know about the girl . |
| 9 | Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already . |
| 10 | It was rebuilt about the year 1300 , when the village was large and flourishing : this was the high farming period of the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | Ginnie was to write about the wonders of the First Aid Group and George about his beloved badgers . |
| 12 | Police were called but when he was interviewed about the attack the next day he could not remember anything . |
| 13 | Barbara Coleman was making incoherent accusations , Merlyn was shouting about the state of the woman 's mind , Joseph was swearing about being in terrible pain . |
| 14 | She was wandering about the room , pulling the covers up on the bed and tidying up half-heartedly , waiting for the kettle on the gas-ring to boil . |
| 15 | Everyone connected with The Championships , however , not least the world 's top players , know that Jim 's expertise and determination , steadily developed since he first began working with grass at Shepherd 's Bush Cricket Club in 1950 , before going on to spend 25 years at St George 's Hill , had more than silenced all the criticism which was developing about the state of the Wimbledon courts in the early 1980's . |
| 16 | Seems like only yesterday ( well it was earlier this year ) that Lucie Fjeldstad , 49 , was boasting about the $100m IBM Corp had given her to lay the foundations of a multimedia business : now she is taking the IBM shilling , also known as early retirement incentives , and quitting her post as vice-president and general manager , Multimedia ; she was behind the Blockbuster agreements . |
| 17 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 18 | The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others . |
| 19 | Little more was said about the case except that several days later , the Sunday Mirror gave the sad outcome of the victim 's ordeal : HOSPITAL AGONY OF THE BIG ‘ UN . |
| 20 | Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose . |
| 21 | ‘ Having mot attended a BA conference since Eastbourne 1987 , ’ Mr Giles said , ‘ I was surprised to discover that the conference was somewhat inward-looking , and that so little was said about the consumer , on whom our wages depend . |
| 22 | Moreover , a closer look at individual patients provides support for what was said about the heterogeneity of groups at the start of this section . |
| 23 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 24 | Nothing was said about the good , about the thriving community work and the community centre . |
| 25 | Little was said about the need to tackle public debt , now running at £15,000 for every man , woman and child in Italy . |
| 26 | Enquiry was made about the patient 's current health , whether a cause for the anaemia had emerged , the most recent haemoglobin concentration , and the continued need for iron treatment . |
| 27 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 28 | It was only earlier this year when the announcement was made about the extension of the east-west route that we had some of the information we 'd been seeking . |
| 29 | In 1928 the opinion of the crews was sought about the enclosing of drivers ' platforms with a vestibule , and in the following year the first car was enclosed . |
| 30 | " The student did not seem to know how to use the library ; he was mooning about the shelves instead of consulting the index . " |