Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 2 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 3 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 9 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 13 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 14 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 15 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 16 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 17 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 18 | Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 20 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 21 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 22 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 23 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 24 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 25 | I do n't need to erm elaborate much more Okay , the give it , give it a mechanical structure , well that does n't necessarily apply to some of the things that we 've done but it does to other parts and if you 're gon na discuss somebody 's model , think about it in the real world . |
| 26 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 27 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 28 | His posting to Pembroke Dock , then commanded by Wg Cdr A. T. Harris , was a meeting of great minds and it is interesting to recall what Harris said about him in the early thirties , and later in the war years : " he was , and still is , the most efficient airman I have ever met " . |
| 29 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 30 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |