Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 2 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 3 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 4 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 5 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 6 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 7 | They were stars of the hard left , but we have heard little about them during the election struggle . |
| 8 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 9 | Parents and others may want to know what has been said about them during the course of an investigation and what information has been recorded about the child . |
| 10 | Well I do n't agree with that , I think that when your in love with someone you want to be with them all the time , you think about them during the day , you think about them at night , you just want to be with them and usually you like how they look , you like how they talk , they like , you like how they treat you and er to me that 's , its wonderful , just |
| 11 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 12 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 13 | BBC television 's reporter on the Prime Minister 's election tour , Mr John Simpson — an embodiment of the communicating class — wrote about them in the Spectator with special rage . |
| 14 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 16 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 17 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |
| 18 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 19 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 21 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 22 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 23 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 24 | Is everyone talking about me in the shack ? |
| 25 | ‘ What yer think about 'er round the back ? |
| 26 | Breathless , she said , ‘ I meant I would no doubt hear about you through the grapevine , Mr Flint , not that I would personally — ’ |
| 27 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 28 | ‘ You only have to listen to people talking about you at the bar to realise that . |
| 29 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 30 | Like this afternoon — I went on about the armchairs being slashed in Madge 's house — We were talking about you at the time . |