Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 2 | ‘ I heard about it at school . ’ |
| 3 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 4 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 5 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 6 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 7 | I think I even dreamed about her at night . |
| 8 | Three days after the coup , the provisional picture which has emerged from carefully phrased official clarifications , and unofficial leaks , is that the Bush administration did not initiate the rebellion but knew about it at least two days in advance and had promised , or at least hinted at , limited support . |
| 9 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 13 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 14 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 15 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 16 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 17 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 18 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 19 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 20 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 21 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 22 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 23 | She spoke about it at length and Richard asked intelligent questions . |
| 24 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 25 | And I meant what I said about you at the start of this . |
| 26 | They said about someone at work they said , he 's we think he 's gay |
| 27 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 28 | Many of those who wrote about it at the time recalled Christopher Marlowes line , " Is it not fine to be a King and ride in triumph in Persepolis ? " |
| 29 | Yang was also writing about his native village but he wrote about it at a distance when resident in New York . |