Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She gathered about her a vast retinue and used to enjoy making pompous processions through the streets of Delhi .
2 She thought about him a good deal , and she was troubled because she could n't feel sure about her feelings towards him .
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 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 …
6 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 .
7 ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’
8 Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way .
9 But they went about it the wrong way .
10 Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress .
11 She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work .
12 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 .
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