Example sentences of "about [pron] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a kind of innocence about them at that stage , Rufus thought . |
| 2 | I 've not heard any grumbles about them at all . |
| 3 | And most of the other wordings discussed have no sense of ‘ request ’ about them at all . |
| 4 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed to Schmidt that even though the recollections made her sad , talking about them at all was the beginning of a means to recovery . |
| 6 | Obviously neglects them and does not care about them at all . |
| 7 | As I say we know nothing about them at all , we 've never ever owned one . |
| 8 | Do you know anything about them at all , their form and what sort of leagues they play in ? |
| 9 | erm Do n't really know much about them at all erm they are an old boys side erm but erm we really do n't know too much about them . |
| 10 | After that he had worried about nothing at all . |
| 11 | And Dorothea talked so , about nothing at all , spinning her phrases out and forever trying to win attention and applause . |
| 12 | Louise , as beautiful as ever , the lines of her face almost invisible since her most recent facelift , wearing the latest sheath dress from Dior , its narrow shape flattering her slender figure , sat opposite him calmly and charmingly talking about nothing at all . |
| 13 | And there was also the enigmatic poem Farai Un vers de dreyt nien — " I 'll sing a song about nothing at all " — with verses like the following : |
| 14 | The wages quoted are low by today 's standards ; the examples can be dismissed as irrelevant in real life , and seen only as the means by which averages are learned — in which case they are what Cockcroft would describe as ‘ about nothing at all ’ . |
| 15 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 16 | ‘ On the contrary , I know very little about you at all , Gina Price . |
| 17 | I shall resist the temptation to say all sorts of nice things about you at this point , because there would be other opportunities obviously . |
| 18 | But Alina hardly talked about herself at all , not at this first meeting . |
| 19 | Did she talk about herself at all ? |
| 20 | But then I 'll be told that it 's not about him at all , in that silly sense . |
| 21 | In his introduction Norris acknowledges the difficulty of writing about him at all in such a context : |
| 22 | She did n't really care about him at all , she just wanted his money . ’ |
| 23 | The small series I 've being doing of the guy with the cap on , he does n't have any goodness about him at all . |
| 24 | The small series I 've being doing of the guy with the cap on , he does n't have any goodness about him at all . |
| 25 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 26 | ‘ Did Susan talk about him at all ? |
| 27 | I know nothing about him at all . ’ |
| 28 | To stay completely safe , she had to feel absolutely nothing about him at all . |
| 29 | But mostly I try not to think about him at all . |
| 30 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |