Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an interesting article in The Sunday Telegraph on 1 December by Mr. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , in which he speaks about the devastation in Vukovar and what has been happening in Croatia . |
| 2 | Only to his great black horse , which he rode about the town , did he show affection . |
| 3 | At least his latest attempt was a story on a subject which he knew about . |
| 4 | Yet there is always the tension between the open , say American , way he has tackled it and in which he talks about it , and the English oyster his knife is trying to open . |
| 5 | erm He apparently is adopting the position of a scientific naturalist , and yet all the ways in which he talks about nature are ways which personify it . |
| 6 | He tends not to formulate and face the difficulties that he encounters sufficiently rigorously , and erm to on the whole get away with difficulties by the skilful way in which he writes about them and by his wit . |
| 7 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 8 | He was shivering , and fumbled in his bedroll for a cloak , which he pulled about his shoulders before crouching beside the fire once more . |
| 9 | ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management . |
| 10 | When Green and his wife went on holiday to Corfu , he had sent Miss Warburton two love letters , in one of which he spoke about his ‘ current other half ’ . |
| 11 | For Charles , Highgrove represented everything he cared about — except his wife . |
| 12 | In appearance everything had been altered since then , and — so far as looks went — much for the better , but nearly everything he cared about most was enshrined in these earliest recollections . |
| 13 | What could he do that would sum up everything he knew about himself ? |
| 14 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 15 | He 'd been a hard man to work for , but he taught Billy everything he knew about that garden and how to take care of it . |
| 16 | He was aware that he was infuriating Ludovico by his opposition to the plan but everything he knew about his friend convinced him that the idea of a whirlwind marriage was wrong and could end only in disaster . |
| 17 | It transpired that Clive had received no formal sexual education and had learned almost everything he knew about sex from Companions and sex magazines . |
| 18 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 19 | Later they go outside , and the camera tracks in front of him he walks about the property , prodding a pig here and shearing sheep there , explaining how , left to themselves , people logically can not fail to humanize the universe . |
| 20 | In another , and ostensibly more jocular , letter to her he speculated about a future race which might come across the name of T. S. Eliot and wonder who he was . |
| 21 | I mean , nothing he said about us . |
| 22 | An employer has been held liable where he failed to take steps to deal with a practical joker whom he knew about ( Hudson v Ridge Manufacturing ( 1957 ) ) . |
| 23 | The employer may also be liable for a practical joker whom he knows about and fails to take steps to deal with ( Hudson v Ridge Manufacturing Co Ltd [ 1957 ] 2 QB 348 ) . |
| 24 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 25 | ‘ I wonder what he thought about , down the pothole all that time , ’ Gaily said . |
| 26 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 27 | Mr Wesley had kindly words to say about the people of the little town and neighbourhood and there is no harm in reminding ourselves of what he thought about or predecessors : ‘ They have in general the finest natural tempers I ever knew ; they have the softness and courtesy of the Irish , with the seriousness of the Scotch and the openness of the English . ’ |
| 28 | We asked James what he thought about his new job : ‘ Erm … like … you know … this gorgeous girlie was buying me drinks all night … like … you know how it gets … right ! … yeah … well … |
| 29 | He had frequently encouraged others to doss down simply because , as he admitted , he could not bear what he thought about at night . |
| 30 | I do n't know what he thought about , but what I thought about was how in God 's name we were going to be able to face each other in the morning . |