Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [num] " 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 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 .
3 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 " .
4 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 :
5 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 .
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