Example sentences of "about [pers pn] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley was accused by natives of practising evil magic because he was observed writing about them in a book . |
| 2 | I read about them in a book , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Even if you have problems , there is very little you can do about them in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 5 | BBC television 's reporter on the Prime Minister 's election tour , Mr John Simpson — an embodiment of the communicating class — wrote about them in the Spectator with special rage . |
| 6 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 8 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 9 | For it was precisely this idea that he promoted when he exhibited the drawings at his Gallery 291 , beginning in late May 1916 , and when he wrote about them in an issue of Camera Work the following October . |
| 10 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 11 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 12 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 13 | Is everyone talking about me in the shack ? |
| 14 | But you also show great restraint over a lot of the stuff that 's written about you in the press , a lot of which is ill-informed gossip . |
| 15 | Do n't become disenchanted when you fail , keep on striving forward , keep your ego under control and never believe the things people write about you in the press ! ’ |
| 16 | But Anne said ‘ Frank , there 's something about you in the paper . |
| 17 | The taxi driver would n't have turned up if he had n't read about you in the paper . |
| 18 | I read about you in the evening paper . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is precisely such a person who can be brought lowest by the hateful things that may be reported about him in a court of law . |
| 22 | People talk about him in the pub on Sundays . |
| 23 | I remember reading about him in the Standard . ’ |
| 24 | Hawk had read about him in the newsfax , but rarely watched teevee , and so had never seen his face before . |
| 25 | He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 27 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 28 | This had been the root of so many of her fantasies about him in the past , fantasies that involved her having power over him . |
| 29 | ( If anyone wants to see prescience in its purest form , they might read quotations from Woodcock 's writing in my obituary article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography . ) |
| 30 | It was a mark of the respect Jimmy gained here that , when we ran an article about him in the Spring of 1977 in our Palace Programme , it evoked a larger response from our fans than any other in that series . |