Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 2 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 3 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 4 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 5 | I know , nor do I but the more you talked about it the more she 'll do it . |
| 6 | As she walked back to the barn she thought about what the marquis had said . |
| 7 | She thought about what the astrologer had said and decided to take a gamble . |
| 8 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 9 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 10 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 11 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 12 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 13 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 14 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 15 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 16 | I think we all need to bear in mind that as far as what Mr said about what the approved strategy was and what the Secretary of Sta of State previously said . |
| 17 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 18 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 19 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 20 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 21 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 22 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 23 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 24 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 25 | Also , in June 1940 the concept of airborne forces was , as far as the British Army was concerned , at its very inception and had about it the fearfulness of the unknown . |
| 26 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |