Example sentences of "[verb] about his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew the attention of the soldier-in-charge and explained about his position in the club . |
| 2 | The smart-money crowd is saying that the revised scoring — with every race counting for title points — is tailor-made for this French Ferrari driver , who now has a more-than-willing helper in Jean Alesi to look after the business of returning the Ferrari compliment to Senna and allowing Prost to go about his business unencumbered by Brazilians wishing to use his piece of road . |
| 3 | Everybody , regardless of ethnic background , religious or personal belief , has the right to go about his or her life free from the threat of intimidation and assault . |
| 4 | If anything he was able to go about his duties as if he had been given carte blanche . |
| 5 | And as if that were not enough , the church bell is also , by ancient repute , therapeutic : place inside it if you can whatever part of your body is troubling you , get the bell ringer to go about his business and you will , with luck , be cured . |
| 6 | Every time a Labour MP pairs with a Tory , leaving that Tory MP free to go about his other business commitments , most of them highly paid , that MP abstained from taking part in opposing this government 's policies . |
| 7 | When , after that , we used to hear controversy about Dr Paisley and later heard about his imprisonment in 1966 , because of that afternoon when we heard the gospel preached with power and conviction , we found ourselves tending to take his side in the controversy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Before long many people from far and wide had heard about his successes , and doctors and specialists began to send him some of their patients . |
| 10 | The Everton and Wales star , caught doing 80 in a 50mph area , escaped a ban after magistrates heard about his extensive charity work . |
| 11 | Both The Cloud of Unknowing and Walter Hilton suggest that some people who had read Rolle 's work or who had heard about his experiences were almost breaking all bounds in order to encounter something similar themselves and were , consequently , damaging themselves as well as wasting their time . |
| 12 | I hoped that Mavis had n't passed on my thoughtless , remarks about his easy-going approach to work and was therefore somewhat self-conscious when he appeared in my office at half past two on the dot . |
| 13 | I also associate myself with his kind remarks about his predecessor , my good friend and colleague George Buckley . |
| 14 | 1 Next time you admit a patient use the information you gain about his home circumstances and your knowledge about the operation he is to undergo to try and decide what care he might need when he leaves hospital . |
| 15 | A few petals still clung about his sleeves , caught in the rough weave . |
| 16 | She is resting her garlanded head on the fingertips of a red-gloved hand , inserting the large , crystal-clear dildo with the other , her crimson mouth parted and blue-mascara 'd eyes half-shut in rapturous delight as the devoted Koons goes about his business . |
| 17 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 18 | Norman , whose scintillating final round wiped out a five-shot deficit , added : ‘ He is great to play with because he goes about his business in his own way . |
| 19 | To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage . |
| 20 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 21 | During its setup , it detects any sound drivers you have installed — you need Windows 3.1 or better to run it and 286 users will , I 'm afraid , miss out on all of this , since you need a 386sx or better in order to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode — so that when Johnny goes about his business you hear his grunts and groans the screech of seagulls , the lapping of the waves and so on . |
| 22 | I care the way Jefferson cared about his rats and their portal shunts . |
| 23 | But , to return to Shneidman and Farberow 's ‘ psychosemantic fallacy ’ , ‘ We believe that this confusion or ambiguity may indeed occur whenever the individual thinks about his death , whether by suicide or otherwise . |
| 24 | The first is through the ways in which Chas thinks about his parents , often stream-of-consciousness fashion , in their absence . |
| 25 | The historical record over a few cycles of objective setting and reviewing is a means of evaluating the progress of the follower on the sound basis of how he thinks about his job and how he carries it out . |
| 26 | The other boy , David , was also puzzling about his experience in the cutting and had resolved to go back and try to find out if he had been dreaming ; somehow he did not feel frightened but more determined to see the tramp and make friends with him . |
| 27 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 28 | He slept a lot of the Sunday and Monday and , when awake , just mooched about his bed-sitter in the gloom that inevitably followed moments of high excitement . |
| 29 | It was this , more than the death , more than the coldness of his father 's cheek , that broke the ice that had formed about his feelings . |
| 30 | ‘ There was something touching about his early fashion shots ; a warmth that other photographers failed to capture , ’ Harrison says . |