Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [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 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 16 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 17 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 22 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 23 | It had almost lulled her mind to blankness when she felt fitzAlan 's arms close tightly about her with the utmost care , bringing her nearer to the warmth of his body . |
| 24 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 25 | Had he changed his mind about her in the cold light of morning ? |
| 26 | You used to be such an ass about her in the old days . |
| 27 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 28 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 29 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |