Example sentences of "he [verb] about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Jones needs a closer and better relationship with the psychiatric services ; she needs to get them to listen to her needs and she also needs someone to provide practical help with money problems for her son , someone who can discuss work opportunities , recognize his need for friendship and help him think about his future . |
| 2 | Managed to let him know about our Social and sold him a book of Christmas Draw tickets . |
| 3 | She wanted him to know about her life , about her real self . |
| 4 | Many readers must have sighed with regret that so few of Gainsborough 's letters have survived , since the charm of his style is so fresh ; it is easy to sympathise with him writing about his professional commitment to portraiture , on behalf of two fine ladies , his daughters : |
| 5 | Then she got him to talk about his investigation . |
| 6 | Wellington encouraged him to talk about his hunting exploits , not to flatter but out of genuine interest . |
| 7 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |
| 8 | ‘ Calypso was trying to mesmerise him to forget about his life back home . ’ |
| 9 | Let him wonder about her mood , she thought , refusing to feel contrite . |
| 10 | Listen to him talking about his moment of conversion when at a certain event he ‘ asked Jesus into his heart ’ . |
| 11 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 12 | She heard a footfall , she pressed herself back , keeping an eye on the street ; in a doorway , further on , a silhouette detached itself for a moment , and she saw a man throw his head back and shake it as if intoxicated , while holding his arms extended , and she fancied she heard him speak to his own fidanzata of that evening , she imagined him murmuring about her hair — as dark as a raven 's wing , perhaps ? |
| 13 | There is no question of Carson , Law and Lloyd George conducting a conspiracy to unseat Asquith in December 1916 ; Law and Lloyd George at least wished to retain Asquith in government and they kept him informed about their plans . |
| 14 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 15 | He spoke so reasonably , so casually , that she could almost imagine he cared about her feelings . |
| 16 | He cared about her pleasure and she responded to him more strongly than she had with anyone . |
| 17 | A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work . |
| 18 | Norman , whose scintillating final round wiped out a five-shot deficit , added : ‘ He is great to play with because he goes about his business in his own way . |
| 19 | From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him . |
| 20 | Had he heard about her romance with Ian White , the junior registrar ? |
| 21 | He asked about its effectiveness , whether it would have a palliative effect , and how it would work . |
| 22 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 23 | There was some long-time-not-see and he asked about her mother . |
| 24 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 25 | ‘ I saw him several times a day and he asked about my baby 's father . |
| 26 | When he asked about his father , his mother told him he had been a drunkard and a scoundrel . |
| 27 | He asked about your life , and seemed to savour every moment of your conversation . |
| 28 | The historical record over a few cycles of objective setting and reviewing is a means of evaluating the progress of the follower on the sound basis of how he thinks about his job and how he carries it out . |
| 29 | ‘ Jason Prior was livid when he read about our going out together last night . |
| 30 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |