Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food had become an obsession with everyone ; even the children talked and schemed about it constantly ; even the Padre , at this period , could hardly fall asleep without dreaming that ravens were coming to feed him but alas , no sooner did these winged waiters arrive with nourishment than he would wake up again . |
| 2 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 3 | While this internal argument reached its height , his superiors argued about him without his knowledge . |
| 4 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 5 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |
| 6 | Which is what the impression I got about him , he was n't really sure himself . |
| 7 | The further we got into basic training the more obsessive I got about it . |
| 8 | He said in one interview that public honours meant nothing to him until his marriage but , even so , the mist of respectability now clung about him always . |
| 9 | But there clung about her something that seemed much older , ten years older , a sort of coolness — not coldness or indifference , but a limpid aloofness ; coolness in the way that one thinks of coolness on a hot summer 's day . |
| 10 | They never cared about me , did they ? ’ |
| 11 | He was so clever , so successful , but I never realized they cared about me , too . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She 's the only one in the world who ever cared about me , ’ she said , but when Julia protested , Minnie sneered , ‘ It 's all right . |
| 13 | In a way , this is just what he needed to make him realise how much he cared about me . ’ |
| 14 | But her imagination continued to torment her , replaying this last scene over and over again , as if trying to force her into admitting that the only person in her life who really cared about her might be dead . |
| 15 | He no longer cared about her , and would soon replace her with someone else , that is if he had n't done so already . |
| 16 | I cared about her before I cared about anything else , ’ he said . |
| 17 | None of them cared about her . |
| 18 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 19 | You never cared about him anyway . ’ |
| 20 | If Madeleine was enjoying herself with her ‘ Pogo ’ , he could enjoy himself with Cora-Beth , who probably cared about him far more than Madeleine ever had . |
| 21 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 22 | Peter and Paul will want to remember their Mummy as she was before she got ill , and how much she loved and cared about them when they were younger , even if the illness makes here different . |
| 23 | In that time they were totally isolated from any contact with their parents , or with anyone else they knew or who cared about them . |
| 24 | The patients here were obviously not allowed to feel that nobody cared about them . |
| 25 | ‘ We created a virtuous circle , ’ said Lockett , ‘ since the act of instituting the questionnaire in itself demonstrated to clients that we cared about them and their requirements . ’ |
| 26 | In 1980 she stopped attending board meetings , which she considered a pantomime ; those things which she really cared about she managed to achieve quietly away from the meeting , in discussions with Phil Morris or Deborah James . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose it showed he cared about you . ’ |
| 28 | It was touching that they cared about you . ’ |
| 29 | It got better after that , because then you started meeting blokes who cared about you as well . |
| 30 | ‘ I cared about you . |