Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | God obviously did not mean her to be eaten by the wolves , for there were plenty about . |
| 2 | I was listening to the end bit , I was saying what were we about at the end . |
| 3 | I 'd always wondered what drove them , what were they about . |
| 4 | There was no-one about … |
| 5 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
| 6 | ‘ There was nothing about that in your statement . ’ |
| 7 | There was nothing about how the pathologist had reached the conclusion that death had taken place some time between 1974 and 1977 . |
| 8 | There was no mention of hair , though Rufus knew hair could persist intact for far more years than those bones had been in the grave , and there was nothing about clothing . |
| 9 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 10 | There was nothing about him that was n't unpleasant . |
| 11 | There was nothing about me . ’ |
| 12 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 13 | There was nothing about ‘ The New Something ’ , or ‘ Towards Something Else ’ , or ‘ An Examination of Something Completely Different ’ . |
| 14 | There was nothing about a delivery in his early morning instructions . |
| 15 | There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late . |
| 16 | There was nothing about Sykes being arrested . ’ |
| 17 | There was nothing about the man 's voice , nothing about what he said that cast any doubt on his motives . |
| 18 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 19 | There was nothing about him he could understand , nothing of which he could be sure . |
| 20 | There was summat about my head in the stars and walking on clouds in it . |
| 21 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 22 | There was something about the firm set of her body that Jay knew instinctively : she was a survivor . |
| 23 | This was something about which he was continually teased , as a means of exerting informal pressure on him to desist . |
| 24 | There was something about the prospective return of Vincent that cheered Rim . |
| 25 | But there was something about Doyle 's voice that made it impossible to interrupt . |
| 26 | Jane was a Welsh woman from the Gower Peninsula , and there was something about her that my grandfather had not realized when he married her after my grandmother died so young : she came of very inbred stock , and had periodic mental lapses . |
| 27 | It was something about the lovers skiing across the Alpine mountain slope , vanishing into the mist . |
| 28 | There was something about the girl . |
| 29 | There was something about his voice that moved her , made her go weak at the knees . |
| 30 | It was something about losing a baby … |