Example sentences of "was [adj] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason I was apprehensive about the approach to The Grey Corries , a fine ridge-walk to the south of Spean Bridge . |
| 2 | As Peter Ackroyd has pointed out in his biography , Eliot was apprehensive about the approach of war : which was not the same as being faint-hearted . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , Ken was apprehensive about the position I might inherit when I touched down . |
| 4 | ‘ Michael was apprehensive about the leap and I said : ‘ If you do n't feel like it , I will jump on and do it . ’ |
| 5 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 6 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 7 | Bill Hughes , deputy chairman of of the Scottish Conservatives , said he was elated about the election results and stressed that the Union was safe in Tory hands . |
| 8 | Then I asked the administrator , who was called Lucy ( I was right about The Beatles ) , what the real form was on Sal 's case . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ he said with a smile , ‘ she was right about the rats , anyway ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She was right about the ERM , right about Europe — and right about the Poll Tax . ’ |
| 11 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 12 | The minister was right about the heart and the heart being divided on Europe . |
| 13 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 14 | In the circumstances ‘ dead on schedule ’ hardly seemed to Lewis the happiest of phrases , but he knew that Morse was right about the call from Babington 's . |
| 15 | He was right about the A levels anyway . |
| 16 | Even more crucially , if the nuclear industry was right about the lack of danger to health from its routine operations , then one piece of evidence stood out like an unexplained sore thumb . |
| 17 | When I learnt biology , I was taught that Weismann , although he was right about the independence of germ line and soma , had given the wrong answer to this question . |
| 18 | At least he was right about the landscape . |
| 19 | Oh yeah … and I was right about the kit then ; - ) ) ) |
| 20 | ‘ He was right about the legs , anyway . ’ |
| 21 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |
| 22 | The Warden was right about the light . |
| 23 | I was right about the shop selling string , and I buy a nice ball of it — all clean and white . |
| 24 | It gave the producers the chance to create some enticingly colourful kaleidoscopes , largely by Lazlo Kovaks ' cinematographic wizardry ; otherwise there was little about the film that either Nicholson , Dern or Strasberg would admit to being proud of . |
| 25 | After so many years , there was little about the game that he did not know , and tactically he was a highly skilled operator who , his players knew , would stay calm in a crisis . |
| 26 | Henry O'Bree was depressed about the exams and left behind a suicide note . |
| 27 | Joe Meek shot himself in 1967 because he was depressed about the failure of his latest recordings and his troubled private life . |
| 28 | He was upset about the kids . |
| 29 | I was sorry about the kites , and I knew that I 'd have to give up flying them for good to keep the act looking realistic , but it was worth it . |
| 30 | Franca was sorry about the change of plan . |