Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be a little biased about this one , but I now consider it to be of a very high standard . |
| 2 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 3 | However , with three exceptions , there was little evidence that disabled people and their organisations were properly consulted about the kind of service which they wanted . |
| 4 | Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery . |
| 5 | People have rather forgotten about it , although that does n't stop the government taking legal action against former agents who want to write about it . ’ |
| 6 | An interest in music that I had rather forgotten about until the thought of Millie in the lane reminded me . |
| 7 | Even Hitler , whose life and ideology glorified an untrammelled lust for power , surprises by his docility under discipline as a corporal in the first World War , and the little reported about his sexual tastes suggests that they were masochistic . |
| 8 | What grotesque outlandish possibility was it that made Piphros so certain , so frightened about it ? |
| 9 | The Northern Regional Strategy Team had commented on the relatively small rate of owner-occupation and planners had long whinged about the impact of the shortage of ‘ executive housing ’ on industrial development . |
| 10 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
| 11 | He had obviously heard about the strange fish from the two boys at the pub , and anything concerning the river was Herbie 's concern . |
| 12 | Looking back on his varied career , Haslam is somewhat guarded about passing on any pet theories on how to manage at the top . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 15 | Her blood was there , but she had apparently forgotten about it . |
| 16 | Further , Childeric 's grave was apparently forgotten about ; the horse burials which surrounded it were already cut into in the sixth century by secondary inhumations . |
| 17 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 18 | Howard has entirely forgotten about it . |
| 19 | I had entirely forgotten about Mrs Hall 's absence . |
| 20 | She had entirely forgotten about Alexander Vass and that unfortunate collision with his Bentley . |
| 21 | Ronni had entirely forgotten about the red geranium that Guido had slipped behind her ear . |
| 22 | It helps one bid rationally , and more coherently , for congenial responsibilities , and therefore to feel more powerful and less resigned about the way these are distributed . |
| 23 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 24 | But it was sort of let me think it was over and it only looked about that big . |
| 25 | Phil Philips , deputy secretary of the British Hotels , Restaurants and Caterers Association , said : ‘ People in the industry are much better educated about AIDS than they were in 1987 . ’ |
| 26 | Probably that had been one of the things which Aunt Ruth , who had little dress sense , so disliked about her . |
| 27 | Grandma was really slagging her off were n't she Maureen Lipman , oh god , yeah , oh I do n't like her , she has too many programmes , I 've only seen about one |
| 28 | Not surprisingly they have contributed to more of the report directly , found the LEA guidelines more useful for preparing the report , believe the report to be more descriptive and judgmental and think that their schools were less threatened about the review process . |
| 29 | Historians have long argued about the ‘ rise ’ of this group , but basically it was the collective experience of nearly fifty individual families who became the pacesetters of Elizabethan Sussex . |
| 30 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |