Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 4 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 5 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 8 | 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 . |