Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
| 2 | And because I was drunk and ca n't remember anything about my ordeal , does that give him the right to do what he did to me ? |
| 3 | Can teach yourself half of that 's about my stamp . |
| 4 | ‘ And what about my granpa 's barrow ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm gon na do it this time , Claudia , ’ he says , his mouth full of stout and his arm about my shoulder . |
| 6 | I was thinking about my Auntie Muriel . |
| 7 | money , investment are proving sound , there is no need to worry about my expenditure |
| 8 | ‘ It 's because I 'm feeling so pleased about my leave chit . ’ |
| 9 | I did draw the line at giving up the spices I cooked with even though for years I continued to receive remarks about my stinking of garlic , yuk , with monotonous regularity . |
| 10 | about my spelling so . |
| 11 | ‘ But so are you , ’ I protested , really astonished because he had been so reasonable about my activities up to now . |
| 12 | I forget how it was that I told Maurice Reckitt about it before Eliot , who usually received prior intelligence about my activities in this sphere . |
| 13 | ‘ You would n't think that a young man once wrote a poem about my ankles . |
| 14 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 15 | she wants about my maths he wants he 's so |
| 16 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 17 | The article said nothing about my answers to these critics , and nothing about the content of my actual talk at Wellesley College . |
| 18 | What will they want to know about my home ? |
| 19 | Naturally , I know most about my home country , Italy . |
| 20 | There was summat about my head in the stars and walking on clouds in it . |
| 21 | A scrawny little old lady poked her head from the doorway of a miniature trailer and fervently watched me advancing slowly towards her , moon-faced , a red neon light about my head flashing the word ‘ Sucker ’ on and off . |
| 22 | A Celtic pantheon of gods whirled about my head , and I may have got them a bit mixed up here . |
| 23 | I can not describe to you , my dear sister , what I went through during those three quarters of an hour , seated was as pale as the jasmine I had about my head … |
| 24 | Even if there is an answer for these , other questions still remain beating like blood about my head . |
| 25 | I 'm not worried about my head , but how do I fix my guitar ? |
| 26 | When I got to the part about my head she tut-tutted . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're thinking about my head , are n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What about my Aunt Goldie ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never had any doubts about my scoring ability but I have still got to go out and do it on a consistent basis . ’ |
| 30 | My hands dart indignantly about my desk as if they were offended mice , opening files , annotating minutes , picking up the receiver . |