Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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31 | After a year or so of disappointment , my Dad gently explained about air waves , and I reasoned that if Dick Barton could send his voice through the air waves , God certainly could . |
32 | He drew the attention of the soldier-in-charge and explained about his position in the club . |
33 | Prof Eno took us aside and explained about mummy rabbits and daddy rabbits . |
34 | While much remains to be explained about dreaming , a number of findings have been made which are by now uncontentious among scientists . |
35 | My solicitor and barrister came and saw me , and explained about parole and remission , and told me there was no point in appealing . |
36 | Gregson had called immediately and Houghton had explained about the fingerprints and how he was sure he now had positive identification of at least one of the bodies . |
37 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
38 | She had sorted out the reins now and Caspar had explained about just touching the horse 's flanks with her heels to spur it to a gallop . |
39 | The superintendent explained about the name of the guest Nicola was expecting to meet . |
40 | Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations . |
41 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
42 | far from being crushed as a nation by the Russian conquest , the Yakuts succeeded in adapting to the ways of their conquerors and extended their own influence over their Tungus and Yukagir neighbours , not to mention the Russians themselves . |
43 | When you are ready , gently come back to the room and write down what the exercise revealed about your way-of-seeing the world . |
44 | In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men . |
45 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
46 | Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop . |
47 | No religion revealed through Mohammed . |
48 | Religion revealed through Mohammed . |
49 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
50 | When they first met for real the fierce , cold , autocratic , heroically self-made man 's beady eye and cockily addressed him as ‘ Washy ’ to his face , well , petrification set in , sometimes terminal . |
51 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
52 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
53 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
54 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
55 | During those years we met for ‘ reunions ’ in New York and London and it was always wonderful to see her . |
56 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
57 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
58 | Only the Good Christ knows why we met for that . |
59 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
60 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |