Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I no longer cared about anything but the sexual charge passing between us . |
| 2 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 3 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 4 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 5 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 6 | Seb 's apparent resignation to the fact that Anna was to marry Nahum did nothing to ease the pain he felt whenever he thought about it during the next few days . |
| 7 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 8 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 9 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 10 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 11 | His posting to Pembroke Dock , then commanded by Wg Cdr A. T. Harris , was a meeting of great minds and it is interesting to recall what Harris said about him in the early thirties , and later in the war years : " he was , and still is , the most efficient airman I have ever met " . |
| 12 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |