Example sentences of "about [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be technically possible , for instance , to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world , akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population . |
| 2 | The bit about everyone in the in a dinner queue . |
| 3 | So fine was her memory and so good were her stories about everyone from Mrs Simpson ( ‘ so angular , all elbows and knees ’ ) to Stanley Baldwin ( ‘ a terrible old humbug about the countryside ’ ) that it was a great pity she refused to write her memoirs . |
| 4 | Experts from 25 different agencies will be on hand with health care information about everyone from babies to pensioners at St Peter 's Church , Rock Ferry . |
| 5 | She sensed a similar , blissful confidence about everyone around her : the barman , cheerfully serving his customers with a lightning speed , the boatmen and labourers , and the shop girls , who seemed completely sure of themselves and unashamedly exuberant . |
| 6 | bloke going on about nothing to them , you know they thoroughly enjoyed doing the songs and everything , but when it came to listening |
| 7 | After that he had worried about nothing at all . |
| 8 | And Dorothea talked so , about nothing at all , spinning her phrases out and forever trying to win attention and applause . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Having dedicated so much energy to his love of Shakespeare , Berlioz wrote his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing with a careful sense of how much speech should surround the musical numbers . |
| 13 | His production of Mrs Warren 's Profession for the National Theatre in 1971 steered cunningly clear of melodrama ; his Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1971 featured white parasols and sun-dappled lawns that seemed to evoke the world of Turgenev . |
| 14 | But Jack knew that he would think about nothing but Ken all day . |
| 15 | ‘ Thought about nothing but cars for the first twenty-five years of his life , now he thinks about nothing but polo . |
| 16 | ‘ Thought about nothing but cars for the first twenty-five years of his life , now he thinks about nothing but polo . |
| 17 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 18 | He was cruel and vicious and cared about nothing but his flock of swine . |
| 19 | When Len arrived , they seemed for some reason to talk about nothing but health . |
| 20 | Thinks about nothing but having a good time . ’ |
| 21 | They 're her friends , not mine , and they talk about nothing but golf . |
| 22 | She would think about nothing but work . |
| 23 | ‘ I hope you get bloody herpes , ’ she shouted — rather an old-fashioned shout in Oxford in 1988 , when the younger dons were talking about nothing but the case of AIDS in Merton . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have thought so too , but last night I spent a whole dinner sitting between two girls who talked about nothing but horses . |
| 25 | There are too many scenes of people talking about nothing in particular and , when characters are differentiated , not by what they do , but by what the author says about them , the effect can be static and unsatisfying . |
| 26 | After pouring the tea and talking to Yanto for five minutes about nothing in particular , she turned to her husband . |
| 27 | His letters to friends are often funny in a less self-conscious way , and he will ramble in a high-spirited or nonsensical manner about nothing in particular . |
| 28 | What , however , of states of feeling , perhaps being depressed or feeling good about nothing in particular ? |
| 29 | They sat sipping the strong , dark brew and chatted idly about nothing in particular , enjoying the warm velvety air , the star-dusted turquoise sky slowly changing to amethyst and the heady-sweet scent from a clump of yellow broom . |
| 30 | Mostly you will find that you need simply to write about someone to whom something has happened . |