Example sentences of "had [be] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 2 | There had been something about him which had affected her deep down inside . |
| 3 | Small as it was , the incident disturbed her , perhaps because there had been something about the man that had appealed to her . |
| 4 | There had been something about Harold Macmillan being a war criminal . |
| 5 | Even as his broken body had followed its spirit into the night woods , there had been something about him : his fingers flexed just so , as if signalling to her ; a frown on his face , as if he was struggling to turn his eyes to the woman by the fire ; a sparkle in those eyes , the dead eyes , the tears that said how he longed to stay . |
| 6 | She looked at the tyre and saw at once that even if there had been someone about who could have helped her , the tyre could n't be mended on the spot-there was a long split in the outer cover . |