Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 2 | In the afternoon , Harry Armstrong and reactor physicist Dave Maxwell held a question and answer session for them about Scottish Nuclear , the power station and nuclear energy in general . |
| 3 | She said that throughout their married life they had always talked things through and come to decisions between them about what to do . |
| 4 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 5 | She arrives at rehearsals one morning after three hours in the chair , exhausted by insomnia and with a series of panicky questions for me about her part . |
| 6 | And also you said , you were going , you were taking the piss out of me about that thing I told you about something to do with Aaron erm |
| 7 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 8 | But we were to have several more arguments in the months to come , and not all of them about poetry . |
| 9 | I here were other police present , and after the announcement she spoke to one of them about her sister Laura . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , if one wanted to study the reactions of women readers of romantic novels to a change in the cover design of a series of books , a group of , say , eight women of varying ages and social classes could be got together either in a house or in a discussion room at a research agency and a trained discussion leader would ask questions of them about their reading interests and , generally speaking , what they expect romantic novels to look like . |
| 11 | Patsy was as excited as any of them about Benny going to university . |
| 12 | In addition to pamphlets and articles Rawnsley published more than forty books , many of them about the life , history , and literary associations of the Lake District , and , influenced by Alfred , Lord Tennyson and William Wordsworth [ qq.v. ] , a vast output of poetry . |
| 13 | Soon , though , she began to dream — confused , disturbing dreams , and all of them about Julius . |
| 14 | I should save the trip until the weekend , when we can all go , besides , she 'll be bored with all your old historical studies , she 'll want to be with other people of her own age , other Americans , perhaps — I mean , there are plenty of them about the place , goodness knows , and that shirt should really go in the wash straight away . ’ |
| 15 | Oh , yes , there 's a lot of them about you know . |
| 16 | And of course , because Jim was relying on Blenkinsop to know basic facts , he did n't grill any of them about their war records , their financial position , or career history . |
| 17 | And of committee and of sorry a special erm meeting between the four officers that produced minutes to all part and this was one of them about this particular issue , which just just is just to record that Westbourne 's Parish Council 's er views were taken into account . |
| 18 | The new book is by a man who 's already written a handful of best-sellers , most of them about moles . |
| 19 | But er there 's none of them about here . |
| 20 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 21 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 22 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 23 | ‘ Anyway , I told Dotty , ‘ Dotty darling , ’ I said , ‘ this terrible possessiveness of yours about the house is definitely something sick , something absolutely psychological . ’ |
| 24 | She takes exception to a story of his about a Jewish Communist , an inhabitant of the camps , who fasts there on Yom Kippur . |
| 25 | He was whistling that stupid little old song of his about the man who was scared to go home in the dark . ’ |
| 26 | Section 83(1) of the Building Societies Act 1986 confers on an individual the right as against a building society to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects , investigated under a scheme recognised by the Building Societies Commission . |
| 27 | ‘ ( 1 ) An individual shall , by virtue of and in accordance with schemes under this section , have the right , as against a building society , to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects investigated under the scheme . |
| 28 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 29 | There were no signs of him about the place . |
| 30 | There is lot of it about these days and not just in the police service . |