Example sentences of "[adv] about his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li Shai Tung stood there , bare-headed , a bright blue quilted jacket pulled loosely about his shoulders against the morning 's freshness , one foot slightly before the other , his arms crossed across his chest , his hands holding his shoulders . |
| 2 | He 's bothering daily about his soldiers in the field and not about the crosses in the school … |
| 3 | There had been plenty of leg-pulling already about his return to the camp the previous evening slightly the worse for wear from the ternum . |
| 4 | Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical point to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon . |
| 5 | Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical period to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon . |
| 6 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 7 | Former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger was indicted on June 16 on charges of having lied repeatedly about his knowledge of the " Iran-contra " scandal . |
| 8 | Nigel Mansell has promised he 'll make a statement tomorrow about his future with the Oxfordshire-based Williams team . |
| 9 | An astonishing double of Lech Walesa , the Yugoslav spoke briefly about his Dictionary of the Khazars , which was in two editions , one for men and one for women . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister was also questioned once again about his role in the Recruit-Cosmos scandal which had forced his resignation as Finance Minister in 1988 [ see p. 36463 ] , but about which new questions had been raised in December 1991 . |
| 11 | He could sometimes be induced to talk about his presidency of the Guernsey Cattle Society , but never about his presidency of the international tribunal . |