Example sentences of "[verb] about [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
| 3 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 4 | We can no more think about anything without a mental image than we can live without breathing . |
| 5 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 6 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 7 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 8 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 9 | It is n't one of the large free-standing circular linkers ( through Silver do have one of these and I hope to write about it in a later article ) . |
| 10 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 11 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 12 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 13 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 14 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 15 | To look out on the night sky with modern eyes is like looking about one in a trackless forest — trees forever and no horizon . |
| 16 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 17 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 18 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 19 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 20 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 21 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 22 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 23 | Negative programming can be general or specific and , unless something is done about it at a later date , its effects can last a lifetime . |
| 24 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 25 | DCT personally leading about one in every four flights . |
| 26 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 27 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 28 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 29 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 30 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |