Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 2 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 3 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 4 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 5 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 6 | King and keyboard man Mike Lindup have soldiered on , but loyal fans will recall ‘ Something About You as the high point and it 's dispiriting to have a five-year-old record and you one great pleaser in the locker . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 8 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 9 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 10 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 11 | Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths . |
| 12 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 15 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 16 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 17 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 18 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 19 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They stopped saying , you know , would you buy a used car from this man and started talking about him as the international peacemaker . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 24 | It had almost lulled her mind to blankness when she felt fitzAlan 's arms close tightly about her with the utmost care , bringing her nearer to the warmth of his body . |
| 25 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 26 | Had he changed his mind about her in the cold light of morning ? |
| 27 | You used to be such an ass about her in the old days . |
| 28 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 29 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 30 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |