Example sentences of "[vb past] about [pers pn] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 6 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 7 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 8 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 9 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 10 | 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 . |