Example sentences of "[vb past] about him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 2 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 3 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 4 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 5 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 6 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 7 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 8 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 9 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 10 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 11 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 12 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 13 | His posting to Pembroke Dock , then commanded by Wg Cdr A. T. Harris , was a meeting of great minds and it is interesting to recall what Harris said about him in the early thirties , and later in the war years : " he was , and still is , the most efficient airman I have ever met " . |