Example sentences of "and [verb] about [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No and like they 're , like Mr was like taking the piss yeah right , everyone was clapping and cheering about something in the class , yeah , and Mr opens the Mr opens the door and goes stop that clapping , and shuts the door . |
| 2 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 3 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 4 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 7 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 8 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 9 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 10 | Or you can classify the novel according to where it was written , " West of Scotland " , and think about it as an example of writing from this locality . |
| 11 | I open my eyes and think about it for a bit . |
| 12 | Why not talk it over with your family and think about it for a week or two ? ’ |
| 13 | So , I 'll bring my things in and think about it for a minute . |
| 14 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 15 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 19 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |