Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 2 | As always , the scent of Californian Poppy wafted about her in perfumed clouds . |
| 3 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They talked sex , the way he talked about it to many people with whom he grew close in a working relationship . |
| 6 | Although most wireless owners had opened their doors so that people could listen to the King 's message , Mr Peters talked about it for those who had missed it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The emotion he generated about him in those moments was a pit of black silence . |
| 9 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 10 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 11 | Oh she says , well I 'm sorry Mr , I never thought about it like that , you see . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Robbie felt her cheeks flush scarlet and she looked about her in angry embarrassment . |
| 14 | I learned about it from another culture , from social workers and counsellors . |
| 15 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 16 | She wore a black dress , an old thing with slightly tattered lace which filmed about her like some black froth . |
| 17 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 18 | She had been surprised by his view of the Tech-Greens , however , and dismissed much of what he said about them as paranoid hysteria . |