Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] about [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 2 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 3 | At first I thought about it a good deal , naturally , and the more I thought the more I liked it . |
| 4 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 5 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 6 | But I think about him a great deal . |
| 7 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 8 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 9 | She gathered about her a vast retinue and used to enjoy making pompous processions through the streets of Delhi . |
| 10 | She thought about him a good deal , and she was troubled because she could n't feel sure about her feelings towards him . |
| 11 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 12 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 13 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 14 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 15 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 16 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 17 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 18 | When you think about it the two big problems are transport and communication |
| 19 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 20 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 21 | And we look forward to seeing some more publicity , between us we have fingers in many pies , and the more we know about it the more chance we have to spread the word around . |
| 22 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 23 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 24 | mail and it says about what a lovely family they are and how it 's got ta |
| 25 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 26 | He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best . |
| 27 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |