Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 2 | When he left school , he forgot entirely about the whole business , forgot about it for a couple of decades , forgot until this thin , tired fellow , looking so very much like his old school chaplain , came and hovered in the drive , the epitome , it seemed to Patrick , of the doubting kind of modern Anglican clergyman . |
| 3 | I myself flatly refused to believe Darwin 's theory when I first heard about it as a child . |
| 4 | I heard about it from a neighbour this year … |
| 5 | We talked about her for a long time , and I think our Chairman was impressed . |
| 6 | Schellenberg brooded about it for a moment . |
| 7 | The girl stood swaying slightly , but she stared about her in a belligerent manner , as though challenging someone to answer her . |
| 8 | They thought about it for a while . |
| 9 | Fred thought about it for a few seconds . |
| 10 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 11 | I thought about it for a while and then telephoned him to say that I could suggest a pretty easy solution , and indicated to him what it was . |
| 12 | I thought about it for a moment . |
| 13 | Lydia thought about it for a while , before she spoke . |
| 14 | He thought about it for a few moments , but said nothing except that he did not understand why a second shoe had been stolen . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , I was covering them today and — ’ he thought about it for a second — ‘ twice last week . ’ |
| 16 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 17 | Yang was also writing about his native village but he wrote about it at a distance when resident in New York . |
| 18 | His arms slid about her in a brotherly embrace that she wanted to trust . |