Example sentences of "about [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we both like pizzas , but to dream about them at the same time , and he 's screaming out in his sleep , get me a pizza |
| 2 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 3 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 6 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 7 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 8 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 9 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 10 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 11 | Scientists are divided about which of the great apes evolved first from the Proconsul line . |
| 12 | Clarity is needed about which of the five models ( the training model , the liberal model , the therapy/social control model , the social purpose model or the socialist/community action model ) is being adopted and evidence is needed about the outcomes of the work as seen by participants . |
| 13 | STOCK broking analysts are about to start making choices about which of the 10 water authorities being floated in early December are worth investing in . |
| 14 | This depends on the aims of the essay , but it might include : — a judgement about which of the competing arguments you have considered in your essay is correct or most persuasive ; |
| 15 | King and keyboard man Mike Lindup have soldiered on , but loyal fans will recall ‘ Something About You as the high point and it 's dispiriting to have a five-year-old record and you one great pleaser in the locker . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 17 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 18 | ‘ How about one for the happy couple ? ’ she suggested . |
| 19 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 20 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 21 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 22 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 23 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 24 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 25 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 26 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 27 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 28 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 29 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 30 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |