Example sentences of "she [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Virginia did n't really believe all the tales she heard about the witch of Wardle Wood — or , at least , she tried not to believe them . |
| 32 | From what I 've read , Meryl Armitage did say that she heard about the Rampton escapee on the ten o'clock news . |
| 33 | Jackie , 23 , of Bristol , said later she suspected 30-year-old Graham planned to pop the question when she heard about the Radio 5 link-up from Barcelona . |
| 34 | She heard about the second attack only on her return . |
| 35 | He wondered if she confessed about the things he hinted at . |
| 36 | You know , the one whose driving-licence picture was in the paper , she 'd been shot , was n't she asking about the Schickerts ? |
| 37 | It was very embarrassing because she talked about the pain and degradation of sex and what a trap her marriage was . |
| 38 | Vonetta was born in this country and went to a school which had a good multicultural mix ; she talked about the ways in which many of her friends , white and Black , love Black music and styles of fashion and find Black men the most attractive . |
| 39 | As a probationary teacher explained when she talked about the general attitude : |
| 40 | She talked about the vulnerability of a figure unknowingly watched — the difference between a portrait and an unposed study . |
| 41 | Her eyes crinkled when she talked about the residents , and Juliet decided she liked her . |
| 42 | She talked about the , one of the girls or something and |
| 43 | Instead she chattered about the law and the law exams and found Davide 's last letter from Riba , and showed Tommaso the flourishing strokes of her brother 's handwriting , and asked him if he too wrote with such tails on his p's and g's and such loops on his l's and d's ? |
| 44 | Carl gives Anna the newspaper and she reads about the princess , and about Carl . |
| 45 | She thought about the men she had met . |
| 46 | When she thought about the things he did they became even sharper , so that it felt as if an electric shock was passing right through the centre of her body . |
| 47 | All through the night she thought about the problem . |
| 48 | She closed her eyes , concentrating once again on her tightening fingers , trying not to think of Richie Daly and the Emma Bates ; trying not to weep when she thought about the waste of a good life , of fifty good lives . |
| 49 | She thought about the one with the smashed head crumpling up . |
| 50 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 51 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 52 | She thought about the day ahead . |
| 53 | For all she knew , he could be a white-slave trader … the more she thought about the possibility , the more distinctly possible it became … |
| 54 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 55 | Waiting for the kettle to boil , she thought about the other night , and the more she thought about it , the more obvious it became that Donna had got it wrong . |
| 56 | She thought about it without finding any kind of answer , and then she thought about the futures of her nursery-school children and others among the children of Dynmouth . |
| 57 | They had left the hospital grounds now , and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car . |
| 58 | By the time she arrived , still wrestling with this dramatic rearrangement of the stars in the family constellation , she had the beginnings of a bad headache , and it was only as she turned into the drive and saw the lights and heard voices and music spilling from the house that she thought about the party that was still , clearly , very much in progress . |
| 59 | The more she thought about the situation she 'd somehow landed in , the more determined she became to get out of it . |
| 60 | Her emotional upsets were beginning to take their toll , and she knew that if she thought about the hopelessness of her love for Silas she 'd begin to weep . |