Example sentences of "[verb] about [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 2 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
| 3 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's not a lot we can do about it at the moment , is there ? ’ |
| 5 | There 's nothing you can do about it at the moment . |
| 6 | She turned , looking about her at the stables . |
| 7 | Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land . |
| 8 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 9 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 10 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 11 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 12 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 13 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 15 | I had n't thought about it at the time |
| 16 | Now write as much as you can about Auntie the sort of person she was , what members of her family thought of her , what her niece realises about her at the end . |
| 17 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 18 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 19 | On that talking point perhaps , would you go through the Channel Tunnel , knowing what you know about it at the moment ? |
| 20 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 21 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 22 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 23 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
| 24 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 25 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 26 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 27 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 28 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 29 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 30 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |