Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't blame me if you only read about Drayton and Taverham classes . |
| 2 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 3 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 4 | ‘ But I thought you only cared about your art , ’ said Lord Henry . |
| 5 | ‘ There I only cared about the money and all the other teachers were the same . |
| 6 | We only caught about half of what was coming across . |
| 7 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 8 | ‘ I literally found about our endorsement of used motor-oil from someone I was phoning to find out whether the stuff was OK , ’ says the group 's Education Programme Co-ordinator at the time , Dave Bruer . |
| 9 | But I probably only used about five guitars in total . |
| 10 | She was so impressed she apparently forgot about her appointment with Mrs Major , who was waiting patiently in the Savoy powder room . |
| 11 | Then , while going through a divorce , I literally forgot about the fish ; the filter broke down and his tank became polluted as well as becoming overgrown with algae . |
| 12 | ‘ It was due for renewal yesterday , but I entirely forgot about it . |
| 13 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 14 | Record companies have become far more adept at monitoring and exploiting new acts , and their links with the smaller labels — who they once only heard about by way of the left-field rock press — are now thoroughly institutionalized . |
| 15 | They only heard about the decision yesterday afternoon . |
| 16 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 17 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 18 | They suddenly worried about their jobs , or their mortgages , or their children 's schooling . |
| 19 | he only went about a week and then he closed . |
| 20 | E I only questioned about something on Sunday coming home , and she said well , lady that were bringing me , she said well they wo n't have it . |
| 21 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 22 | These kids not only knew about rock'n'roll , they could play it . |
| 23 | Your priest only knew about the past . |
| 24 | The implication always was , the feeling , that Michael not only knew about the men in balaclavas , but was a part of them somehow , but Rory and his mother — although never discussing it — believed otherwise . |
| 25 | He obviously knew about David Harland , but why did that make him so cross ? |
| 26 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 27 | Quite possibly because whatever she personally felt about Naylor Massingham , manners were still manners . |
| 28 | So you obviously thought about where you were going to stand . |
| 29 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 30 | Yes er I think that er notwithstanding the fact that we only spoke about the er incentive scheme on occasions , we reserved our er judgment as to when we would apply to the management to discuss certain matters . |