Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bonds came on the market after this time they were sold quietly by the Bondholders Committee to members of the Club with a long term , proven interest in its affairs , who had either enquired about bonds or were offered them being regarded as suitable individuals . |
| 2 | The positive picture of British government began to lose its gloss ; academics who had previously written about the political system in positive terms now turned their attention to the problem inherent in that system . |
| 3 | I waved at the receptionist , who had obviously forgotten about me , as I left , saying : ‘ Sorry , the despatcher 's given me the wrong street . ’ |
| 4 | It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier . |
| 5 | De Gaulle , who had never murmured about leaking taps or malodorous drains , remained somewhat out of favour with the group for the short time remaining . |
| 6 | Fenella , who had almost forgotten about this , was cheered , because it was impossible to be afraid ( well , almost impossible ) with Bith and Culdub and Flaherty and the rest of them . |