Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 3 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 4 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 5 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | She had to keep her wits about her in the next few minutes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | And yet the process for fixing expenditure allocations seems to be as much of a shambles as ever it was when you and Mr Heath were so concerned about it in the late 1960s . |
| 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Eventually she had found out about it in the worst possible way . |
| 14 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |