Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform . |
| 2 | And there 's loads of people round about me and I just went wurgh ! |
| 3 | In a way I think so , I mean if were quite honest about it but we also see ourselves mirrored in whoever we love we see ourselves mirrored in their eyes which is a very comfortable sort of feeling . |
| 4 | ‘ There have been constant jokes about it but we quite like it because every time our names are called out we see a row of smiling faces . |
| 5 | Cos they s cos that 's compressed in , these barrels , and that was all done abroad and once these barrels broke , well you could n't do nothing about it but we never , they never , there was none of that wasted , never . |
| 6 | Occasion ally they were vaguely sad about it but they never considered adopting . |
| 7 | You know which I I i wa , I was n't totally embarrassed about it but I just we , I think she was , you know , that sort of generation and that era , which I hope with my son it will be totally different , like come to me and say anything you like , you know ? |
| 8 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 9 | She said but I 'm not gon na do anything about it but I just think he 's nice . |
| 10 | its really cold , yeah oh that was good , I enjoyed that she 's still there , she 's a Lance Corporal now as well and I must admit well I , I did n't think she 'd ev , she was always crying but I never thought she 'd actually do very well in the T A , did n't seem to have the get up and go about it but she obviously sorted herself out and got , Spambo Man they called me . |
| 11 | The house was so run down that even Anna could n't afford to do anything about it and she never liked it much . |
| 12 | I told Dali about it and he simply chuckled . |
| 13 | It , it is a form of an obsession and it is an excitement and there 's a warmth and there 's a funniness about it and it just wonderful , better being in love than not being in love surely . |
| 14 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 15 | In England a debutante of 1957 , Anne Browning , looked back on her season in Dance Little Lady in similar terms : ‘ If there was sex in the bushes , no one knew about it and it certainly was n't the accepted thing . |
| 16 | It 's just that I have n't had time to think about it and I only thought that with all those shepherds in the area there was bound to be some traffic in illegally slaughtered lamb . |
| 17 | And then something ha no that is completely in your mind because I 'm rude to people all the time and I 've never even thought about it and I still do things and I do n't , you know , it does n't even cross my mind . |
| 18 | ‘ The English press wrote this stuff about us and it nearly broke up his marriage , ’ he said . |