Example sentences of "[noun] about [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When , turning , he reached the part about finding it behind the standing stone , he revealed the gleaming decoration .
2 The following morning , three of the six were eventually discovered at various positions around the living room , the faint glimmer of life making me change my mind about dispatching them to the waste bin .
3 Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel .
4 There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans .
5 Ferguson revealed : ‘ I have been so impressed by Danny 's form that I am now giving serious consideration about playing him in the League team .
6 I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter .
7 We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic .
8 The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human .
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