Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 2 | Since Paul 's departure — she grimaced at the memory — Dinah had been able to do as she liked with it , and she liked to have objects about her that reminded her of herself . |
| 3 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 4 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 5 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 6 | She read about it and saw it on television . |
| 7 | Mum knew about us and mentioned it to Sarah when we came back here after your wedding . ’ |