Example sentences of "about [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " When you crept into my room less than a week ago , you were n't so shy about touching me . |
| 2 | More information about cleaning , and about drug us and HIV , can be found in The Terrence Higgins Trust leaflet ‘ Sex , Drugs & HIV — Healthy Options for Drug Users ’ . |
| 3 | I 'm really excited about seeing them live at Wembley . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm a bit apprehensive about seeing her again , but I 'm sure she 'll have fun seeing the old hag in her new colours . |
| 5 | You could tell she was n't too happy about seeing her replaced by that baggage . |
| 6 | Had he come to England and changed his mind about seeing her ? |
| 7 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 8 | She was taken aback to realise just how far her reservations about seeing him had disappeared . |
| 9 | " I 'm going to tea with Mrs. Mott , " she added , and then glancing at Jenny , " Mr. Matthew 's away for the week-end , so do n't fret about seeing him . " |
| 10 | There was something about seeing him that way , first thing in the morning , dressed as she 'd never seen him before , in a cotton knit shirt and snug , faded jeans , that had made her throat tighten . |
| 11 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 12 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 13 | While there was no pressure from her family to embark on a structured career , there was considerable reluctance about allowing her to live on her own in London . |
| 14 | The other thing about financing it . |
| 15 | You feel guilty about enjoying it so much . |
| 16 | No problems about cross-examining him ? |
| 17 | Almost as if , having proclaimed himself paralytic in court , he was setting about proving it over and over again . |
| 18 | It 's not about proving it ; it 's a moral question . ’ |
| 19 | Did you , did tha that come up about eating them ? |
| 20 | — Pork — specially dangerous in this respect , as the old British saying about eating it only when there is an " r " in the month ( i.e. the cold months ) bears out . |
| 21 | Keep him laughing and he might have second thoughts about eating you ! |
| 22 | I fantasized about poisoning it and killing us all , even Davey , even little , innocent , favoured Davey . |
| 23 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 24 | We talked about pick it up . |
| 25 | Asquith , like Campbell-Bannerman , was personally , if somewhat indolently , in favour of reform , but also like his predecessor was extremely cautious about pursuing it , for fear that it would lose as many votes from middle-class taxpayers as it might gain from others . |
| 26 | Did you know the French master was fluent in Anglo-Saxon — part of his degree was in Old English -how about bringing him in on " The Coming of Christianity " with " The Lord 's Prayer " as it was spoken by Alfred the Great ? |
| 27 | How about bringing him in on Thursday ? " |
| 28 | They 're not actually that im they 're not important about bringing them to faith . |
| 29 | about bringing it up in the next erm meeting . |
| 30 | ‘ How about bringing it to my table ? ’ he suggested at last . |