Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I wander the terraces I often overhear supporters talking about me and the overriding opinion is that ‘ he wo n't be here much longer ’ . |
| 2 | I only care about you and the little bastard in your belly . |
| 3 | I thought about how I 'd walked around all those weeks and what I 'd felt about him and the crazy things I had found myself believing . |
| 4 | She had a delicacy and charm about her that the old man recognized . |
| 5 | She gave a deep sigh and felt the silver threads spin filaments of pure light about her and the soft folds of slumber enveloping her … like a soft light veil , like a warm , wine-dark sea , like hazy afternoon sunlight … |
| 6 | Several leaders of the Liberal Party " were known to favour a Popular Front to move the Government , but acquiesced in the view that they could do nothing about it unless the Labour Party changed its attitude " . |
| 7 | It is clearly easier to follow a message that announces its subject and then says something about it than the other way round . |
| 8 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not getting paranoid about it because the only difference is that the keeper ca n't pick the ball up . |
| 10 | But one side says we should n't talk about it and the other talks too much . |
| 11 | The Advanced Computing Environment lives on , sort of , or if it is dead , NEC Electronics Inc has not heard about it and the Japanese company 's contribution to the festivities at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta is the launch of a new reduced instruction set computing chip set , the MCT-DP/MCT-ADR designed to facilitate development of high-performance systems based on the R-series architecture . |
| 12 | The Advanced Computing Environment lives on , sort of , or if it is dead , NEC Electronics Inc has not heard about it and the Japanese company 's contribution to the festivities at Comdex/Spring in Atlanta is the launch of a new reduced instruction set computing chip set , the MCT-DP/MCT-ADR designed to facilitate development of high-performance systems based on the R-series architecture . |
| 13 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 14 | We talked about it and the following day , we registered the company . |
| 15 | Philippa , 41 , said : ‘ One minute Rod was joking about it and the next he was acting strangely . ’ |