Example sentences of "about [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we both like pizzas , but to dream about them at the same time , and he 's screaming out in his sleep , get me a pizza |
| 2 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 3 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 7 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 8 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 11 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 12 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 13 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 14 | In submitting its scheme of delegation to the DES for approval , each LEA had to make decisions about which of the permitted discretionary items it intends to control from the centre and which it will delegate to schools . |
| 15 | Scientists are divided about which of the great apes evolved first from the Proconsul line . |
| 16 | Clarity is needed about which of the five models ( the training model , the liberal model , the therapy/social control model , the social purpose model or the socialist/community action model ) is being adopted and evidence is needed about the outcomes of the work as seen by participants . |
| 17 | The answer is that it comes mid-way between them — which tells us nothing about which of the other two came first . |
| 18 | STOCK broking analysts are about to start making choices about which of the 10 water authorities being floated in early December are worth investing in . |
| 19 | This depends on the aims of the essay , but it might include : — a judgement about which of the competing arguments you have considered in your essay is correct or most persuasive ; |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 22 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 23 | As to the other , I heard about you from the other side as well , did n't I ? |
| 24 | ‘ How about one for the happy couple ? ’ she suggested . |
| 25 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |