Example sentences of "[noun] about [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have the look about you of a hired sword , Hrun of Chimeria . |
| 2 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 3 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |
| 4 | She knew she ought to get a piece about him in a national newspaper . |
| 5 | Had he changed his mind about her in the cold light of morning ? |
| 6 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 7 | To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times . |
| 8 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 9 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 10 | With appropriate care and support from colleagues ( and time to ‘ heal ’ ) , there is every chance that victims of violent assaults will be able to get back to work quite quickly , complete the cycle of adjustment to the incident , and be able to incorporate their disturbing feelings about it as an accepted aspect of their work experience to learn from . |
| 11 | You used to be such an ass about her in the old days . |
| 12 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 13 | She told Antonia about it in a hushed voice the night her friend came to sleep over at her house . |
| 14 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 15 | I am having the matter looked into , and I shall make a statement about it in a few minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 17 | She had to keep her wits about her in the next few minutes . |
| 18 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |