Example sentences of "about [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'll want to take a look at those eyes of yours , whether anything can be done about them at the moment or not , and even if it is Boxing Day . ’ |
| 2 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 3 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 4 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 5 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 6 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 7 | " They know nothing about you at the Lab . |
| 8 | ‘ You only have to listen to people talking about you at the bar to realise that . |
| 9 | ‘ When I heard you were coming I made some discreet enquiries about you at the newspaper . |
| 10 | Like this afternoon — I went on about the armchairs being slashed in Madge 's house — We were talking about you at the time . |
| 11 | And I meant what I said about you at the start of this . |
| 12 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 13 | ‘ Bulgarian women have babies in hedges , ’ he said , looking vaguely about him at the north end of Sixth Avenue . |
| 14 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 15 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 16 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 17 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 18 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 19 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 20 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 21 | Now write as much as you can about Auntie the sort of person she was , what members of her family thought of her , what her niece realises about her at the end . |
| 22 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
| 23 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 24 | Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land . |
| 25 | She turned , looking about her at the stables . |
| 26 | And we especially do n't talk about it at the workplace . ’ |
| 27 | I noticed Tite did n't say anything about it at the inquest . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll tell you about it at the end . |
| 29 | Fresh spring air was quite popular in Walworth after the fogs of winter , but Dolly had her reservations about it at the moment . |
| 30 | Er , as I say , I 'm ra , I 'm very pessimistic about it at the moment but |