Example sentences of "[adj] about [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 2 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 3 | There was very little about it in the national press . |
| 4 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 5 | I thought no more about it till the following week . |
| 6 | And yet the process for fixing expenditure allocations seems to be as much of a shambles as ever it was when you and Mr Heath were so concerned about it in the late 1960s . |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 9 | This means that newcomers to the union would have confidence about using it , and not feel so anxious about it as a new and untried form of credit as they might if it was instead an advertised credit institution . |