Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [coord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't , I , I would , if , if , if the company were n't so refined I would say other things about them but I do n't give a hoot . |
| 2 | They helped build Kuwait and they know about Kuwait and we know about them and we trust each other . |
| 3 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 4 | Ask officials at the DSD secretariat in Bonn about them and they shrug , ‘ It 's a legal requirement , so the costs are not important . ’ |
| 5 | Like Spike Milligan , his jokes are very hard to explain — it 's difficult to say what exactly is funny about them and they do n't read well if you write them down . |
| 6 | got ta got ta royal visit coming up he said you 've worked at the Scottish Office do you know anything about them and I said yes tell the Scottish Office they 'll do all the a Royal navy one I 've got to do it I said fine when is it ? |
| 7 | people keep telling me about them and I do n't seem to write them down , I probably |
| 8 | I asked him er about them and he says his mate always uses them and he says they 're right good . |
| 9 | Computer programmers and analysts will be allowed to make use of programming techniques and skills which they have learnt and which have become part of their own skill and experience , unless there is something very special about them or they have expressly agreed not to make further use of them . |
| 10 | I know how she feels about me an' I feel bloody lucky she does . |
| 11 | and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday |
| 12 | I have felt embarrassed because I 've had to meet people afterwards who I who I who I care what they think about me and I 've put in the biggest load of old rubbish . |
| 13 | She knows about me and I know about her . |
| 14 | knew exactly that he was talking about me and I thought what ? |
| 15 | ‘ I want to make love to you more than anything in the world , but you have doubts about me and I want everything crystal-clear between us , so ask your questions , Gemini girl . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know next to nothing about me and you do n't know my father at all , yet you have the nerve to say such things ! |
| 17 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 18 | Chunky heard about his and we became friends . ’ |
| 19 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 20 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
| 21 | I do n't know about you but I have a hard time believing that . |
| 22 | I told them in school about you and they said I was ideally positioned . ’ |
| 23 | You know when people talk about you and they do n't actually ask you they just mention things and hated |
| 24 | How about you and me steppin' out ? |
| 25 | ‘ How 's about you and me having a sit in my car ? ’ |
| 26 | And he says hello Jean , all about you and he says , is this for you love , and I says yes and I said |
| 27 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 28 | You 're different , you 're dynamic , let it come across a bit more about you and you know , what a good team you are and you 've cracked it . |
| 29 | awful when you hear about yourself , it is horrible and you hear something that someone 's said about you and you think how can they , they just spent the whole day with me or they 've spent , you know exactly your situation like , couple of years of your life with you |
| 30 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |