Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing gilded about this youth today . |
| 2 | See what I mean about that skirt ? |
| 3 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 4 | And of course there 's the fact that any statements I make about general business confidence are price sensitive and could knock the share price . ’ |
| 5 | Now the mix-up we had yesterday , er on a lot of aggro when I got about this dust extract system one line three . |
| 6 | I just noticed I was reading one of these er incidentally I mentioned about British Gas er this is the one that they give all their . |
| 7 | Tomorrow we are holding a party in our bungalow , which has room for about 60 people , and I imagine about that number may come . |
| 8 | As a Scot , I speak about shared sovereignty with great feeling . |
| 9 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 10 | The more I read about this man as a kid , the more fascinated I became . ’ |
| 11 | In the book I read about this girl who has a celebration when it 's her period , and I asked Mum : could we do that ? |
| 12 | ‘ Now what 's this I hear about this madman driving an Irish Ford ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I know about that sort of smell . |
| 14 | ‘ I know about that arrangement . |
| 15 | In fact I know about one occasion when it was robbed , though they 've mostly hushed it up . |
| 16 | I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them . |
| 17 | I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation . |
| 18 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 19 | Its television advertisements still portray a genuine Eskimo fisherman , who proudly declares : ‘ You know what I like about Eskimo Pie ? |
| 20 | ‘ What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites , ’ she says . |
| 21 | What I like about old furniture is that all the pieces are favourites |
| 22 | Know what I like about this story ? |
| 23 | But that is what I like about this film . |
| 24 | Know wha do you know what about I remember about that holiday ? |
| 25 | ‘ I heard about this project in the late Seventies , and as a screenwriter it was my biggest dream . |
| 26 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 27 | I heard about some guy came up |
| 28 | ‘ But you know how I feel about that woman . |
| 29 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |
| 30 | ‘ Words can not express how I feel about this man . |