Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She gathered about her a vast retinue and used to enjoy making pompous processions through the streets of Delhi . |
| 3 | He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best . |
| 4 | She thought about him a good deal , and she was troubled because she could n't feel sure about her feelings towards him . |
| 5 | After that — ’ he swore ‘ — if I 'd thought about you before we made love , afterwards I thought about you a thousand times more . |
| 6 | At first I thought about it a good deal , naturally , and the more I thought the more I liked it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 12 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 13 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 14 | Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress . |
| 15 | I think we all need to bear in mind that as far as what Mr said about what the approved strategy was and what the Secretary of Sta of State previously said . |
| 16 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 17 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 18 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |