Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] [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 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 3 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 4 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 9 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 10 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 11 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 15 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Negative programming can be general or specific and , unless something is done about it at a later date , its effects can last a lifetime . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 21 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 22 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 23 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 24 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 27 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 28 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 29 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 30 | For instance , if you are going to be discussing inner city problems , speaking about them from a beautiful stately home deep in the heart of the countryside lessens the impact somewhat ! |