Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 2 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 3 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 4 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 5 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 6 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It literally , it literally means produce the body only you ca n't simply , well the difference between a constitutional system and er an arbitrary government is that in arbitrary governments people get arrested and disappear , locked up , throw away the key and worry about it the next generation or after the next er military coup or whatever but in a constitutional government there have to be procedures and one of the safeguards of individual liberty is that if you 're ever arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies you have to be produced before a court within a specified period and charged with something . |
| 9 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 10 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 11 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 12 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 13 | Ken was a great fan of the then Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Ramsey , and talked about him a great deal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 17 | Has known about her a long time . |
| 18 | She gathered about her a vast retinue and used to enjoy making pompous processions through the streets of Delhi . |
| 19 | He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 22 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 23 | She thought about him a good deal , and she was troubled because she could n't feel sure about her feelings towards him . |
| 24 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 25 | At first I thought about it a good deal , naturally , and the more I thought the more I liked it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 29 | ‘ Then clearly I have n't gone about it the right way . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |