Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 2 | Most of them went through the ritual of gazing about them with curious eyes in search of a familiar face among the crowds . |
| 3 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 4 | The place gave Johnson another whiff of anthropology : here he stood as if in Africa or Arabia , greeting wild natives in their habitat : these Macraes might have been Xhosa tribesmen , or Tuaregs : ‘ The villagers gathered about us in considerable numbers , I believe without any evil intention , but with a very savage wildness of aspect and manner . ’ |
| 5 | Should the current tide turn , we will think about it with great pleasure and renewed confidence . |
| 6 | Heaps of sand lie scattered about it like soft pyramids . |
| 7 | They are just as much a product of the youth system as any youngster from the FA School of excellence though — so I reckon were OK to gloat about them in future years : - ) ) |
| 8 | ‘ There must be many ways of making this place snugger , ’ argued Charles , looking about him with fresh eyes . |
| 9 | As always , the scent of Californian Poppy wafted about her in perfumed clouds . |
| 10 | Our dramatis personae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways . |
| 11 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |
| 12 | Only nothing happened the next day and Chesarynth knew she was right not to trust herself because she could n't tell waking from dreams of an endless corridor with people whispering about her behind locked doors . |
| 13 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 14 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 15 | But questions have also been raised about it in non-social areas of linguistics , and these are often attached to reservations about the theoretical nature of sociolinguistics as a discipline . |
| 16 | Second he tells us that the classical paradises , which you can read about it in ancient authors , none of them are as fine as the Garden of Eden . |
| 17 | James stared about him with uninhibited curiosity , staring closely at the paintings and prints which covered the walls , poking his nose into tea caddies and picking up any object which took his fancy . |
| 18 | The centre of this novel is the interpolated tale of the dead and beloved Tom Outland , who discovers a prehistoric and beautiful city in the sun on the mesa , and tells about it in immediate , enthusiastic prose . |
| 19 | Having ideas is a pretty inscrutable process — rather well described in about 600 pages by Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation — and is a very personal thing : different people who are good at it go about it in different ways . |
| 20 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 21 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 22 | Robbie felt her cheeks flush scarlet and she looked about her in angry embarrassment . |
| 23 | Then they began to glance about them with jealous , embittered eyes , wondering if someone other than they had been saved , whether God had favoured one and not another . |
| 24 | The way she was looking right now , pink-cheeked and with her hair falling about her in tousled , tangled curls , it would take a miracle to transform her into elegant and sophisticated . |
| 25 | Lily lay in mild shock afterwards , while nurses fussed about her with hot-water bottles and held a cup of strongly sweetened tea for her to sip . |
| 26 | But if you think about it in contemporary terms I I was giving a lecture in London er a couple of weeks ago erm on the subject of erm America 's changing foreign policy under Clinton if you just think about foreign policy making and who makes it , and questions of consistency and you think about some of the crises that are going on in the world from Bosnia and so on what does the constitution tell us ? |
| 27 | If you want to find out about how he feels about being faithful , try talking about it in abstract terms — talk about the latest celebrity scandal , or friends in this situation — and see how he responds . |
| 28 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |
| 29 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 30 | When the work goes to places where people have cancer , there 's no taboo at all , they just fall about you with open arms and say , ‘ How marvellous to be able to talk about it . |