Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 2 | to provide meetings which have about them a sense of mental , spiritual and emotional homecoming to them . |
| 3 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 4 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |
| 5 | And , road accidents , we talk about them a lot , and we 've discussed about charging for them , or whether we should n't and all the rest of it , they are n't about bits of squashed metal , they 're about people . |
| 6 | We always had books and newspapers in the house , and I talked to the children about them every day . |
| 7 | At least Linfield are still above us in the championship race so you can keep on writing about them every day . |
| 8 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 9 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 10 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 11 | In September and October we read in the papers of the heavy raids on London , and the more we read and heard about them the more difficult it became to understand how people could survive . |
| 12 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 13 | About them the world seemed to stand still , the silence broken only by the gentle rustling of the leaves in the branches above their heads . |
| 14 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 15 | The geometrical plan of these structures , and the accuracy of their laying-out , caused astonishment upon their discovery , but otherwise the more that has emerged about them the more difficult in some ways they have become to understand . |
| 16 | We have only done them when we know we have not done them , because there is so much more to them ; and the more we think about them the more they have to say . |
| 17 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 18 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 19 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 20 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 21 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 22 | You do care about me a bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Which is one thing about me the murderer does n't know . |
| 24 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 25 | He and I talk about you every night , and wonder what you are saying and doing . |
| 26 | " I 've thought about you every day , all the time , " he said . |
| 27 | I 'll wait for you , darling — I think about you every day . |
| 28 | I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else ! |
| 29 | Stephen has talked about you a lot in the last few months , ’ she said . |
| 30 | " I 've been thinking about you a lot , too . |