Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 2 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The more I think about it the more I am amazed that men are so sanguine about this food-for-sex thing . |
| 7 | The more I think about it the more I feel sure that this is the way . |
| 8 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 9 | And of course , the more you worry about it the more it starts er to come out . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I know , nor do I but the more you talked about it the more she 'll do it . |
| 12 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 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 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 16 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 17 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 18 | The you think about it the more ridiculous the situation seems . |
| 19 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 20 | Of course , if you think about it the consequences of that is these guys die and when they die , those wives that they married as young girls are now middle-aged women or possibly younger , anyway past their youth , but th th they , they may not be . |
| 21 | When you think about it the two big problems are transport and communication |
| 22 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 23 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 24 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 25 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 26 | And we look forward to seeing some more publicity , between us we have fingers in many pies , and the more we know about it the more chance we have to spread the word around . |
| 27 | We have only done them when we know we have not done them , because there is so much more to them ; and the more we think about them the more they have to say . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 30 | But they went about it the wrong way . |