Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 2 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 3 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 4 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 5 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 6 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 7 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |
| 8 | Also , in June 1940 the concept of airborne forces was , as far as the British Army was concerned , at its very inception and had about it the fearfulness of the unknown . |