Example sentences of "and [verb] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was nervous and frightened about the future , yet excited because of being so . |
| 2 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 3 | At ten o'clock I put the radio on and heard about the man who 'd escaped from Rampton . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ Julia said , thinking of all she had read and heard about the battle at Monte Cassino . |
| 5 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 6 | Anyhow it was like the sea and boats and everything else and I used to I was working in a shop and I use to get up early in the morning and go down and tally all the numbers and names of the boats and and there was an old man came in to shop while I was working in and asked about a certain boat , I says oh I can tell you , trek down . |
| 7 | A Japanese man came in and asked about the china ducks . |
| 8 | However they should not be a worry for a pilot who is well trained , and who keeps in practice and thinks about the conditions before each flight . |
| 9 | He parks it on the carpet in the bay window of his plush Deptford Park , south-east London terraced house , surrounded by Sega Megadrive games , and thinks about the long-lost days when he was a young , hip rent-a-gob Cockney git on NME . |
| 10 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 11 | Do you ever stop and think about the way you breathe ? |
| 12 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 13 | My Group was anxious that all teachers should understand and think about the ideological assumptions implied by their approach to the teaching of English , for this is one way to overcome dogmatism . |
| 14 | Far from wanting students to challenge and think about the important issues that affect patients and the community , the course tutors simply seemed to want compliant students who would not answer back . |
| 15 | ‘ The gang should also stop and think about the danger they could be in . |
| 16 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 17 | To complete the idyllic farmyard scene , chickens , a mixture of varieties , strut and scratch about the driveway and the fields . |
| 18 | There are many many people who live in houses on their own ca n't get out and again it 's an indictment on our society when you hear and read about the telephone profits that er that B T are making . |
| 19 | His face was discoloured and swollen about the eyes and a plaster was spread across his forehead . |
| 20 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 21 | Then we could go home and explain about the envelope and get a fresh one . |
| 22 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 23 | Pesh Framjee of Binder Hamlyn 's Charities Unit agrees that fund managers are making a song and dance about the changes , ‘ but let us say there is no smoke without fire and a lot of wet leaves going round ’ . |
| 24 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 25 | A REGIONAL councillor , Terry Penny , was stripped of his membership of committees , sub-committees and working parties for three months by a meeting of the full council yesterday because of unruly behaviour and remarks about the Grampian convener , Bob Middleton , and the policy and resources chairman , Morag Morrell . |
| 26 | Cathy was surprised how ill she looked , there was an area of paleness about her eyes , and her nose was pinched and reddened about the nostrils ; perhaps a summer cold , though Alan had said she was depressed . |
| 27 | Children can be involved in the design of these and consulted about the sort of games that they would like to have organised for them in break times . |
| 28 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |
| 29 | Since many of the evangelicals shared Billy Graham 's opinions and valued his methods and saw the good which he did , his article stirred wrath among them and fear about the Bishop of Durham becoming the Archbishop of York . |
| 30 | Most burghers who voted for the right did so to express uncertainty and fear about the looming costs of unification . |