Example sentences of "[adv] curious [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was no less curious about the life of the newly-arrived colonists ; for this Italian experiment , though short-lived , had few precedents . |
| 2 | Whether your students are planning to attend holiday courses in Britain , or are merely curious about the lifestyle , customs , and civilization of the British , When in Britain is designed to encourage them to think about not only the British way of life , but also about their own . |
| 3 | Here , for the nostalgic or merely curious among you , is the complete list of all the stuff we 've put out over the years . |
| 4 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 5 | There was something so constantly curious about the headmaster of the Boys ' Wimbledon Day Islamic Independent School that , after a while , you stopped wondering where , or indeed whether , he had acquired a degree in anything , and surrendered to that mellifluous , actorish voice . |
| 6 | This appears especially curious as the issue of providing powers was assuming considerable national importance for the WEA which in 1929 was pressing for retention of its Chapter III providing powers during the Board of Education 's review of the 1924 Regulations . |
| 7 | It was because he was so alert , so curious about the world , about books and films , that Ghatak could never take the easy way out . |
| 8 | Why is it that we human beings are so curious about everything ? |
| 9 | I can not say why I suddenly became so curious about him . |
| 10 | ‘ She was so determined and so curious about things . |
| 11 | She would gladly have refused to go with him altogether if she had n't been so curious about the man . |
| 12 | I do n't mind in the least , of course , I 'm just curious about what you are going to do with it . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm just curious about the methods . |
| 14 | When the calls come in — often from people only mildly curious about what their items might fetch — the operation begins in earnest , with the knocker boys changing into smart suits and affecting Cork Street accents . |
| 15 | I 'm fascinated by writers , as intrigued as anyone by film stars , and genuinely curious about people in politics . |
| 16 | But she was genuinely curious about the young Italian . |
| 17 | Mrs Brooks was not usually curious about her guests . |
| 18 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm still curious about one thing … |
| 20 | While she and Susan and Gay kept in the background , he hovered near the gate , ready to answer any questions put by the more curious of the passers-by , and the sight of his familiar figure reassured the villagers , and they began to think that there might n't be a catch in it , after all ! |
| 21 | The truth was she 'd never been more curious about anyone in her whole life , but there was no way she 'd give him the satisfaction of knowing that . |
| 22 | There he delivered the first of his attacks upon the press lords : ‘ There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own . |
| 23 | What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose . |
| 24 | Curiously enough , though — and most curious of all , given the world of intense cohabitation in which he grew up — Burton hated to be touched . |
| 25 | One of the most curious of these was the knighting of ambassadors at the end of their mission by the monarch to whom they had been accredited and the grant to them of augmentations to their coats of arms . |
| 26 | Out of the corner of her eye , she caught the fact that they were being stared at with unveiled interest by most members of the group , the most curious of all , of course , being Mandy . |
| 27 | They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message . |
| 28 | I was also a little curious about the place myself , to tell you the truth . |
| 29 | I asked , fiery with embarrassment , and yet intensely curious at the same time . |
| 30 | He 's desperate to score one and it was rather curious on Saturday that it was his shot , parried by , a player with an England pedigree should better than the Palace goalkeeper did on that occasion . |