Example sentences of "[verb] about his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time a Labour MP pairs with a Tory , leaving that Tory MP free to go about his other business commitments , most of them highly paid , that MP abstained from taking part in opposing this government 's policies . |
| 2 | The Everton and Wales star , caught doing 80 in a 50mph area , escaped a ban after magistrates heard about his extensive charity work . |
| 3 | I hoped that Mavis had n't passed on my thoughtless , remarks about his easy-going approach to work and was therefore somewhat self-conscious when he appeared in my office at half past two on the dot . |
| 4 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 5 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 6 | ‘ There was something touching about his early fashion shots ; a warmth that other photographers failed to capture , ’ Harrison says . |
| 7 | On his final outing there was also a lot to like about his fourth to desert Secret and Geisway in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot . |
| 8 | The 26-year-old is guarded about his physical and mental fatigue , but he says pointedly : ‘ It 's time for me to relax . ’ |
| 9 | When she read about his new marriage she said , The yellow press have caught him , poor boy . |
| 10 | Iago only ever talks about destroying Othello and Desdemona , has even forgotten about his own career , and Othello takes over his obsessions . |
| 11 | They seem to have forgotten about his earnest tune completely . |
| 12 | He had gone to the big one and he wandered about his two in his legs . |
| 13 | Near the end of the book , Holden fantasises about his ideal life , in which he would go West , and pretend to be mute . |
| 14 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |
| 15 | Even Hitler , whose life and ideology glorified an untrammelled lust for power , surprises by his docility under discipline as a corporal in the first World War , and the little reported about his sexual tastes suggests that they were masochistic . |
| 16 | After all , it is flattering to a hard-working policeman to think that someone as glamorous , or glamorous-seeming , as an author wants to know about his dull daily life . |
| 17 | I now want to know about his fractured leg . |
| 18 | Hopefully he would be able to tell her all she needed to know about his air-conditioning unit in a couple of hours . |
| 19 | For example , we really need to know about his previous and current experience , his strengths and weaknesses , his relationships in his job and with his wife , whether he had any problems , any enemies . |
| 20 | And he , so apparently casual — punitively casual — often irritated by her anxiety , could also rely on her being there for him , but without having to know about his own need for her to be safely where he had left her . |
| 21 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 22 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 23 | Does he have to be reminded about his long meetings with apple-cheeked Maude the milkmaid at the back of my stables ? |
| 24 | His sorry tale is one long whinge about his own suffering — his lack of sex , his loneliness , his sleeplessness . |
| 25 | Felix 's wife started talking about poetry , which she wrote , while Felix shouted about his last visit to Castro . |
| 26 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 27 | Sometimes he writes about his native Ireland , sometimes he does n't — but that is not the point . |
| 28 | If that ever got out , he 'd have to worry about his public image . |
| 29 | Dai Qing shocked the audience by declaring : ‘ I do n't care what Binyang says about his second kind of loyalty ; even the third , fourth or fifth kind of loyalty wo n't save China ’ . |
| 30 | But then Paul is not the sort of man to talk about his private life at work . |