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

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1 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 ?
2 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 .
3 ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’
4 Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way .
5 But they went about it the wrong way .
6 She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work .
7 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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