Example sentences of "and [vb past] about [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
3 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |