Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] about this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing gilded about this youth today . |
| 2 | And yo and your er see what I mean about this area up here , I mean it 's not a bad thingy . |
| 3 | Now the mix-up we had yesterday , er on a lot of aggro when I got about this dust extract system one line three . |
| 4 | The more I read about this man as a kid , the more fascinated I became . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ Now what 's this I hear about this madman driving an Irish Ford ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Know what I like about this story ? |
| 9 | But that is what I like about this film . |
| 10 | ‘ I heard about this project in the late Seventies , and as a screenwriter it was my biggest dream . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Words can not express how I feel about this man . |
| 14 | For a moment Henry thought that this might be a genuine act of worship , a public act of love towards the vehicle ( I am not ashamed of what I feel about this car ! |
| 15 | I thought about this conversation for quite a while afterwards . |
| 16 | First person I thought about this morning was you . |
| 17 | ‘ How could I forget about this morning ? |
| 18 | That 's what I love about this business . |
| 19 | When I spoke about this problem to my parents-in-law they only laughed . |
| 20 | And the second point I think about this year 's intake is that , in terms of A-level grades , it 's particularly good . |
| 21 | When I enquired about this test , my worst fears were confirmed . |
| 22 | I wonder about this Justice and Peace Group who requested a speaker , did they hear any more ? |
| 23 | What I liked about this letter was the phrase ‘ if you tell me that I have it ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Remember what I said about this bed ? |
| 25 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 26 | There are several poems I wrote about this fixation , and some unfinished ones like this : |
| 27 | The fluency with which he himself wrote about this period was born out of a particular requirement . |
| 28 | Then one day , I was in this car with some blokes , and one of them said , ‘ Have you heard about this band , with a really good one-legged woman bass player ? ’ |
| 29 | And what do you think about this idea of turning it into like a little piazza there for everyone to sit out on do you like that idea ? |
| 30 | What do you think about this statue and all these trees we 've been talking about the ones around by Marks and Spencers yes ? |