Example sentences of "[vb pp] about [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis is extremely good at describing the actual territory in which the moral life , for most of us , is thrashed out , and the extent to which we enable ourselves to be deluded about ourselves and other people : |
| 2 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 3 | Note down any other changes you may have noticed about yourself , even minor ones — you may not see the connection but they may be vital clues to the doctor . |
| 4 | In spring 1921 , when ‘ the English myth is pitiably diminished ’ he discussed ‘ the chief myth which the Englishman has built about himself , that of the fat country squire . |
| 5 | It no longer aroused feelings of exasperation , as it had done when he failed to link what had amounted to a form of work paralysis with the hopelessness which Dave must have felt about himself both at home and at school . |
| 6 | He started saying all the things I 'd said about myself . |
| 7 | And so it was Emily who , if all that had been said about herself and George was true , would miss him most and she was absent from the funeral . |
| 8 | As a former reporter I devour newsprint with the appetite of a motorised refuse truck , but some of the garbage that has been written about myself and other women MPs deserves instant binning . |
| 9 | ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’ |
| 10 | If they want the free bus passes they 've got to something done about themselves and . |
| 11 | Shannon felt the bed sink slightly as he sat down beside her , and suddenly realised to her horror that the towel she 'd wrapped about herself had slipped off as she slept . |
| 12 | That night , because he could see himself , Boy thought about himself all night long . |
| 13 | He had n't thought about himself , but with Tom taking on another farm , a farm that would one day be his own responsibility , it was hardly likely he would have time to take care of Seb too . |
| 14 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 15 | As she put it , ‘ as long as it 's warm when the children get home , I 'm not bothered about myself ( Ritchie , 1990 , p. 36 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ This decision totally vindicates me and clears my name of the slur that I have lied about myself . ’ |
| 17 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 18 | The image of the island is to be found and cherished , above all , in the stories it has told about itself , and perhaps believed of itself , for nearly half a century since it emerged into the troubled and hungry peace of 1945 . |
| 19 | This was the first time he had ever talked about himself , so she knew it must be very important and felt flattered that he was confiding in her . |
| 20 | But Alina hardly talked about herself at all , not at this first meeting . |
| 21 | Behavioural rights are more a matter of belief than legislation since they tend to be based on conclusions which you have reached about yourself in relation to others . |
| 22 | ‘ He is a nice , intelligent guy but I think his public image reflects only what he wants known about himself . |
| 23 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |
| 24 | For the first time in her life she felt radiantly satisfied , as though she had somehow managed to find all the answers to every question she had ever asked about herself . |
| 25 | Hopefully , in the near future , I will say that I am cured , but I do know that whatever I have learned about myself , through the Alexander Technique , will always be with me in the future and will help me through any other crisis in the time to come . |
| 26 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 27 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 28 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 29 | What she had discovered about herself last night would always have been doomed . |
| 30 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |