Example sentences of "about [pron] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's worried about them the whole time . |
| 2 | ‘ But I never felt remorse about them the same way I did about him . |
| 3 | Even Emilia is deceived by his concern on behalf of Cassio : ‘ I warrant it grieves my husband/As if the case were his ’ — ‘ O , that 's an honest fellow ’ , agrees Desdemona ( III.iii.3ff. ) . in Much Ado about Nothing the villainous Borachio , tool of the malcontent Don John , exults at the success of his deception : ‘ I have deceived even your very eyes ’ n.i.238f . ) . |
| 4 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 5 | They call me that , she thought , when they are talking about me , for they talk about me a great deal even when I am there . |
| 6 | The background of one was recognizably Santa de Nogueira , and she was locked in struggle with an ordinary-looking man about whom a dark cloud was gathering . |
| 7 | The Weathermen , about whom the underground filmmaker Emile De Antonio made a sympathetic documentary in 1977 , took their title from the protest song by Bob Dylan : ‘ You Do n't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows . ’ |
| 8 | On the face of it , a man about whom the whole world knew , whose life was an open book — no , a succession of books . |
| 9 | It is even odder that many of the people about whom the hon. Gentleman expresses concern are precisely those who would suffer from Labour 's proposed savings tax . |
| 10 | However , it became apparent during the consultation that separate charges would have borne most heavily on those about whom the hon. Lady is concerned — people in rural areas . |
| 11 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 12 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 13 | A good example is the construction of teeth , about which a certain amount is known . |
| 14 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , this is a large and complicated area of discussion about which a great deal has recently been said . |
| 15 | The issues which will inevitably come up in one form or another include ‘ no first use ’ of nuclear weapons , about which a good deal has been written , not least in No-First-Use ( Blackaby et al . , |
| 16 | Hypotheses which are worth testing can only be developed in areas about which a good deal is known , i.e. where a great deal of empirical field data has already been collected . |
| 17 | Uncertainty extends also to the question of Molla Yegan 's death date , about which a wide divergence of opinion has grown up amongst the various sources , who give dates ranging from 840/1436–7 to 878/1473–4 . |
| 18 | It has often struck me that remedial classes everywhere in the school system are heavily populated with boys needing help with their language development , yet when able girls slide down in mathematics , that is generally considered as something ‘ natural ’ about which no active steps need be taken . |
| 19 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 20 | I wonder how long he would last in the emasculated Audit Commission about which the Labour party has talked . |
| 21 | In such cases the animal is living in its past , a past about which the new owner knows little or nothing . |
| 22 | The alleged mortgage rescue scheme about which the hon. Gentleman boasts was described this morning by an independent commentator as ’ a policy made in an Enid Blyton story book ’ — |
| 23 | I am afraid that that is not the view of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce , about which the hon. Gentleman asks . |
| 24 | I can not think of a more patsy , unquestioning system better designed to produce the cosy relationship about which the hon. Gentleman so frequently speaks . |
| 25 | I am confident that these issues are something about which the hon. Gentleman knows absolutely nothing . |
| 26 | I turn now to the information that is held on the national computer about which the hon. Gentleman asked a number of questions . |
| 27 | We are providing ample Committee time for consideration of evidence of the type about which the hon. Gentleman is talking . |
| 28 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 29 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 30 | ‘ The graves are there , fair enough , but there 's no mistake about who the three geezers in cold storage here are either . |