Example sentences of "about [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 2 | I er I forgot about them the night before and I forgot to tell her about it last night so . |
| 3 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 4 | About them the world seemed to stand still , the silence broken only by the gentle rustling of the leaves in the branches above their heads . |
| 5 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 6 | ‘ Which is one thing about me the murderer does n't know . |
| 7 | Matthew Prescott was a nice man , even though she could not imagine ever feeling about him the way she did — had — about Cameron . |
| 8 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 9 | She would think about it-in the morning . |
| 10 | And there 's no doubt about it the flashing of the lights is is a beneficial thing . |
| 11 | The stone face , lively and young as it was , had a certainty about it the boy could not claim as yet . |
| 12 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 13 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 14 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 15 | It is no good going to a dog training club once a week and forgetting about it the rest of the week . |
| 16 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 17 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 18 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |
| 19 | Most people have experienced directly or through reading about it the business of opinion research . |
| 20 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 21 | Also , in June 1940 the concept of airborne forces was , as far as the British Army was concerned , at its very inception and had about it the fearfulness of the unknown . |
| 22 | I 'm just sitting wondering whether the in light of the problems we 've had in the Gulf , there 's no doubt about it the strengthening of the relationship between this country and the States is certainly there for all of us to see , so do you think that 'll have a spin off in terms of people wanting to come here and visit us ? |
| 23 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 24 | I , in actual fact , went there and erm , just thinking about it The amount of people that 's involved with it now , is astronomical to be honest , I did n't realize the interest was in hockey as it is . |