Example sentences of "he [vb past] about [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He looked at the bag , the shoes , the platinum watch and , more than anything , he sensed about her an air , almost repellent , of arrogance . |
2 | He thought about it a bit more and decided that home was the wrong word ; it was just the place where he lived . |
3 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
4 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
5 | He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best . |
6 | 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 . |