Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 2 | There was only one small regret she had about her tardiness : she was clearly far too late for breakfast , and she was feeling absolutely ravenous ! |
| 3 | Emmie had always known it , really , but only as part of the long , beautiful dream she had about all her family . |
| 4 | It was a sensation she was n't accustomed to , and for a moment she wondered about it . |
| 5 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 6 | How , against all the evidence , all the overwhelming knowledge she had about Guy Sterne , could she have let events overtake her like that ? |
| 7 | All that day she thought about his words , considered them , agonised over them , tried to justify her behaviour that now seemed to bear no justification at all . |
| 8 | All through the night she thought about the problem . |
| 9 | As she walked back to the barn she thought about what the marquis had said . |
| 10 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 11 | The first thing she noticed about him as he walked into her office was that he looked tired and rather drawn . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the last thing she talked about . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd phone Steve later and find out what he was doing and then she would use any information she had about him and Maria Luisa to irritate her way out of the Casa Pinar . |
| 14 | On duty she strode about looking as if she could not wait to get off duty and chuck a discus . |
| 15 | There 's a lot she knew about the danger . |
| 16 | Ralph Sinnott makes a desk and chair , while Hazel Rogers moves from the box she wrote about in the April issue , to a nest of tables . |
| 17 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 18 | One of the finest , by one of the finest poets , the Cumbrian Susanna Blamire , is ‘ Wey , Ned , Man ’ , recording a conversation she overheard about Tom Paine 's ‘ Reets o'Man ’ . |
| 19 | Did n't want Mrs Fry knowing about Chris , the way she felt about boyfriends , not if I was bringing Vern along . |
| 20 | His dry sense of humour still had the capacity to make her lips twitch in amusement , even as she recognised that there was nothing remotely amusing about the way she felt about him . |
| 21 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 22 | On the way she thought about Maurin . |
| 23 | She describes herself as ‘ big and strong ’ , even though she readily admits she probably is n't actually that big — that 's just the way she feels about herself , the way she feels she has to be . |
| 24 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 25 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 26 | In her thesis she writes about it , but she also — I surmise — sees the downside ( as Letterman says ) , namely that none of these religious beliefs will be sufficiently adhesive to hold Masai society together once the other solvents get to work . |
| 27 | Luke did n't answer her immediately , but the grey eyes were eloquent as they dropped to the tiny champagne-coloured skirt the slenderness of her legs made permissible , then travelled upwards again in slow appraisal of her strapless matching bustier , encrusted with transparent beads and revealing both her smooth olive-toned midriff and the upper swell of her high , proud breasts beneath the single fine circle of gold she wore about her neck . |
| 28 | It reminded her painfully of Jordan and for the first time she thought about how she was never going to touch him again . |
| 29 | Every time she thought about her mother , the tears were there . |
| 30 | Every time she thought about how much he kept hidden behind that sexy face of his her blood went cold . |