Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be saying something about them in the lectures , not today but next week , and er now which reminds me , who is performing next week ? |
| 2 | The formal powers of the royal family have diminished as the yardage about them in the newspapers has grown . |
| 3 | I welcomed moves to cut price increases and did not find that they were being done in secret — I read about them in the newspapers and elsewhere . |
| 4 | However , there are several Mira variables which can be found with binoculars when near maximum , and can even show some colour ; I have given notes about them in the pages which follow , but it is rather pointless to go into detail , because long-period variables are the province of the telescopic observer , and estimates made with binoculars are inevitably rough . |
| 5 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 6 | ‘ We read about you in the papers , ’ said the anaemic one . |
| 7 | Cottee 's advice to Shearer ; ‘ Ignore everything they write about you in the papers — including this ! |
| 8 | I 've often read about you in the papers , and there were a couple of reports about you having killed people and — ’ |
| 9 | When I read about you in the papers , and then heard you 'd been found , I just had to come . |
| 10 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 11 | But he said his efforts were futile and Farrow would say ‘ terrible things ’ about him to the children . |
| 12 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 13 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 14 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 19 | Tattling about him over the teacups . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No collection of his own papers survives , nor is there much about him in the letters of others . |
| 22 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 23 | There 's a terrible article about him in the papers just last week about Mickey Rooney , he wrote some |
| 24 | She had read about him in the newspapers , seen him once or twice on television , seen photographs of him in magazines . |
| 25 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 26 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 27 | She turned , looking about her at the stables . |
| 28 | I have also heard a story , however , about her being distinctly unamused by some of the things written about her in the newspapers . |
| 29 | I 've read about her in the papers of course . |
| 30 | I did n't even remember her until I read about her in the papers . ’ |