Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love .
2 Why did you let me read about it in the papers ?
3 Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over .
4 Nobody talked about it in the classes , only the birth and the pregnancy , not about the baby afterwards , or how you will feel .
5 Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang .
6 Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself .
7 All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’
8 But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years .
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