Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [that] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
| 2 | ‘ Was there anything at all about them that struck you as odd ? ’ |
| 3 | He stared at her , and there was an arrogance about him that made her shiver . |
| 4 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 6 | With a feeling of despair she knew there was altogether too much about him that attracted her , that made her want to respond . |
| 7 | There was something about him that set him apart from the other men in the room . |
| 8 | His shoulders were tense and there was an air of waiting about him that troubled her . |
| 9 | The girl had something — quite apart from her natural grace and outstanding good looks , quite apart from the lithe , leggy body that was simply made for modelling , there was a quality about her that made her stand out from all the others girls in the class , which drew the eye and held it , so that even someone as cynical as Arlene looked and wanted to go on looking . |
| 10 | Since Paul 's departure — she grimaced at the memory — Dinah had been able to do as she liked with it , and she liked to have objects about her that reminded her of herself . |
| 11 | There was something about it that made it different and she did not know if it was a horse in a class of its own or if that was the rider . |
| 12 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 13 | ‘ It would have been a crime completely out of character , ’ he told me , ‘ and it was the way he spoke about it that convinced me . ’ |
| 14 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |