Example sentences of "about [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 2 | So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them . |
| 3 | Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent . |
| 4 | Before describing each of the methods in greater detail , one further point can be made about them as a whole . |
| 5 | Well Mick it 's now stage two of the er Anglo-Italian Cup , it 's Pisa tonight , er do you know anything about them as a team ? |
| 6 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 7 | Stanley was accused by natives of practising evil magic because he was observed writing about them in a book . |
| 8 | I read about them in a book , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Crystal Palace , meanwhile , have the look of relegation about them after a Richard Shaw own goal and the dismissal of Lee Sinnott summed up their day . |
| 10 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 11 | In April he was still having difficulty in completing the book and in a letter to Henry Treece in September he was again expressing doubts about himself as a writer . |
| 12 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 13 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 14 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 15 | That was a bit of a shock , cos I was dreaming about summat about a train and Marie going away , and then suddenly I came to and found myself in the station . |
| 16 | ‘ I was worried about you for a while . ’ |
| 17 | We will report you missing and they will forget all about you after a while . |
| 18 | For that reason , it is worth thinking about what is interesting about you from a journalist 's point of view before trying to woo him or her with your beautiful noise . |
| 19 | Disc boxes and mouse mats are good stocking fillers , but what about something with a bit of class ? |
| 20 | Even for the reader who can generalize , it is difficult to be objective about something like a cat . |
| 21 | In the longer term , a woman 's feeling about herself as a mother will affect her moods and how she behaves in that role . |
| 22 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 23 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 24 | It is a paradox that very little is known about him as a person ; although he was respected by the men , he kept his distance . |
| 25 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 26 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 27 | We know quite a lot about him as a son and a husband , but little about his feelings as a parent — he makes no reference in his surviving letters to the deaths of four of his children . |
| 28 | I asked around about him as a player and they said he was ‘ rough and fearless ’ . ’ |
| 29 | But beneath it she understood , accepted , found it far easier to hate him , when he fought her back to the bed , than to ignore him ; the bitings and scratchings of anger coming near enough to passion so that when he entered her again she found it possible , in her loathing , her detestation , her bitter resentment , to wrap her own strong , hard limbs about him in a grip designed to wound and crush him but which could also excite . |
| 30 | Anger could sweep across him like a storm cloud in fast motion and burst all about him in a fury of violently well-picked epithets . |