Example sentences of "[noun] about [pron] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those years had an intensity , a singularity and a sense of joy about them that I have not known before or since . |
| 2 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 3 | The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details . |
| 4 | On one side list all the things about yourself that you like ; on the other put all the things you do not like . |
| 5 | Decide on three things about yourself that you would like to change and tackle them calmly one at a time . |
| 6 | She noticed things about him that she had been forced to ignore . |
| 7 | Syl 's oboe was another of the things about him that I could n't bear . |
| 8 | Dorian began to understand things about himself that he had never understood before . |
| 9 | I 'm finding out things about her that I never could have known . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You are n't worried that there might be things about me that you wo n't like ? |
| 11 | Frankie liked Nanny 's house because it was warm and brightly lit , but he was rarely allowed to go there alone because Smallfry knew things about it that he would never understand . |
| 12 | I think it 's a bit too busy myself , but I 'll explain w , the things about it that I really like . |
| 13 | ‘ He has to put his proposals to the parties now , because he has made so many public comments about them that he has no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ There was , ’ said Timothy West , a ‘ dark quality about him that he did n't let people see very much of . |
| 15 | There 's a few sort of erm bits about it that he 's obviously changed or |
| 16 | There was a contenting assurance about her that he found restful . |
| 17 | Either I have to give you so much information about myself that you are forced to admit that I could no more have killed my wife than Flaubert could have committed suicide ; or else I merely say , That 's all , that 's enough . |
| 18 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 19 | What 's the next obvious thing , very very obvious thing about him that we 're forgetting ? |
| 20 | He was much the same height as Hotspur , and much the same build , though twenty years at least older , and a century more crafty , and there was always the curious suggestion about him that he was ready and waiting to fit himself into the void if ever Hotspur slipped out of being . |
| 21 | She ran to meet him , weak with relief , but he was very vague as to why he was late and there was a remoteness about him that she could not penetrate . |