Example sentences of "[v-ing] about him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 2 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 3 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 4 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 5 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 6 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 10 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 11 | I remember reading about him in the Standard . ’ |
| 12 | Tattling about him over the teacups . |
| 13 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 14 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 15 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |