Example sentences of "about it [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 2 | Frankie liked Nanny 's house because it was warm and brightly lit , but he was rarely allowed to go there alone because Smallfry knew things about it that he would never understand . |
| 3 | But they are not renowned for their adventurousness and the final product has an arbitrary dullness about it that suggests the product of a predictable corporate culture . |
| 4 | There is no doubt about it that this programme is an Irish Republican Army programme sponsored and inspired by Communism . |
| 5 | There was something about it that made Mr Piggott feel younger — a beau , a masher , a man who was still pursued . |
| 6 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 7 | He was so cunning about it that his dancers thought they were still working for John ! |
| 8 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 9 | I found nothing about it that I did n't particularly like and plenty that I did . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have been a crime completely out of character , ’ he told me , ‘ and it was the way he spoke about it that convinced me . ’ |
| 11 | So how would we find an outside correspondence for jealousy , a way of writing about it that would make it real for the reader , so real that it puts him/her in touch with his/her own jealousy ? |
| 12 | It is as if each writer had taken the memory of some powerful event ( the terrible shock of being woken by a piercing noise ; discovering the ‘ magical ’ properties of magnets ) and daydreamed in such a concentrated way about it that a group of people , a situation , a story began to emerge . |
| 13 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 14 | Her voice had a finality about it that made Roy 's blood run cold in his veins . |
| 15 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 16 | And there was something about it that froze the blood , even before he woke up and knew it was real . |
| 17 | After Arthur read that paralysing codswallop , the piece of business became impossible and it was only after Fred rang him up and ribbed him about it that he could manage to get the thing off his head again . |
| 18 | In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’ |
| 19 | What 's he know about it that we do n't ? |
| 20 | There was something about it that tugged for attention . |
| 21 | The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sorry to go through it all again , but there 's something about it that seems odd to me . ’ |
| 23 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 24 | She had never particularly liked the church as a building — there was a coldness and lack of ‘ atmosphere ’ about it that had nothing to do , she felt sure , with the wealthy congregation . |
| 25 | There was something about it that made it different and she did not know if it was a horse in a class of its own or if that was the rider . |
| 26 | The Opposition are so rattled about it that NALGO is spending £2 million to advertise against it . |
| 27 | There was something about it that seemed different , but he could n't tell what it was . |
| 28 | And you know , no two ways about it that saw was definitely a a good acquisition . |
| 29 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 30 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |