Example sentences of "thing about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that whole thing about they 're never gon na come for me . |
| 2 | We learn not a thing about him . |
| 3 | The interesting thing about him is that he was one of those people who always turn out to be lucky no matter what they do . |
| 4 | But the most remark able thing about him was his hair , unusually long for those days , and abundant — of the palest , curly blond , exactly the moonlight platinum colour of my own hair when I was a little boy . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most interesting thing about him was not the conclusion he reached , but the way he reached it . |
| 6 | The nice thing about him is his self-deprecating manner . |
| 7 | She realised that the strange thing about him was that he was not drunk . |
| 8 | The great thing about him is , when you walk into a room — and it does n't matter if you 're talking to senators or salesmen — he 'll say , ‘ Do you know Tip Anderson ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He was a doctor but that was about the only genuine thing about him . |
| 10 | Whereas it is impossible to identify the author of this Gospel , it is possible to be sure of one thing about him . |
| 11 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he can fight in and out of the trenches . |
| 12 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he always wants the ball and always wants to use it . |
| 13 | I 'd decided his kite was the best thing about him . |
| 14 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 15 | It 's a obvious thing about him , he was not being horrible , skinny and tall . |
| 16 | What 's the next obvious thing , very very obvious thing about him that we 're forgetting ? |
| 17 | And you know , another strange thing about him , he never locks his doors or windows at night . ’ |
| 18 | The only unusual thing about him — how he loves me . |
| 19 | The most striking thing about him was the intensity of his eyes ; very dark brown , staring , with a simian penetration emphasized by the remarkably clear whites ; eyes that seemed not quite human . |
| 20 | The only interesting thing about him was to speculate why on earth a sparky girl like Nicola should want to marry him . ’ |
| 21 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 22 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 23 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 24 | One thing about him struck Pumfrey as being unboyish : he seemed to be taking no pleasure from being so sensationally at the centre of things . |
| 25 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 26 | One thing about him that was probably on the plus side : he had the ability to drain away her tension and make her feel better . |
| 27 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 28 | ‘ I never heard him say an unkind thing about anybody and I never heard anybody say an unkind thing about him . ’ |
| 29 | I 've found the increasing dogmatism and certainty that she 's right the most sinister thing about her because that so often goes with paranoid feelings , and it may be that this is one manifestation of that . |
| 30 | Which is probably the most offensive thing about her . |