Example sentences of "[noun sg] about they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'd like you to have a think about them as fractions . |
| 2 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 3 | They were called Suede , and nobody gave a toss about them . |
| 4 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's far too much abuse from players and managers and a lack of honesty about them . |
| 6 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 7 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've read a fair bit about them . |
| 9 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 10 | I what , I do know a bit about them that was the grapefruit scoop . |
| 11 | Mhm , I can imagine well they know a bit about they know , oh , the , well , Julio of course used to keep goal did n't he ? |
| 12 | Now what essentially , what you 're doing , is that you 're writing an essay in very , very condensed form , so it 's just , I mean you still , still must have the same recipe in there when you write a short answer , right , but you just have to be very , very brief , so you know , para paragraph on definition , you know , paragraph of examples , right , erm , paragraph on some sort of explanation or erm , how it 's , how it 's measured erm , has it been a contentious issue erm , what are the problems with this er , with this concept erm , right , you 've got to get those sort of things in there , like you would in an essay , if you were asked to write an essay on reciprocal dumping you 'd , you 'd have all those things in there , right , but you only need to write a sentence , a sentence about them . |
| 13 | The referee 's first task of a damp evening was to ask Wasps to change their jerseys in order to avoid confusion and they emerged with a far more waspish look about them in black-and-yellow hoops . |
| 14 | On the rocky point near the settlement we came across a small flock of birds which had a very familiar look about them : they were whimbrel , that Arctic version of the curlew which breeds on most of the northern islands , including Shetland . |
| 15 | The young ones were less strongly coloured and still had a downy look about them . |
| 16 | CDF … the names are all faintly familiar , and have a serious look about them . |
| 17 | Two of these featured stars that she 'd heard of , the others had an inescapable bit-playerish look about them . |
| 18 | They had a crudely-carved , regular look about them , so that on this crisp autumn morning the Wyrmberg hung over the clouds like a giant 's dovecote . |
| 19 | Her beautiful red hair was arranged in its usual chaotic beehive , but there was something strange about her eyes which had a curious bruised look about them . |
| 20 | A very new officer ( judged by the colour of his drill shorts , which had a yellow rookie look about them as if they had come straight out of Millett 's window ) appeared in his drill which was never meant for him ; it was meant for a much larger person . |
| 21 | I was obsessed with the way they looked , but I knew I was n't being told the whole story about them . ’ |
| 22 | The children liked the wooden soldiers and began to tell a story about them . |
| 23 | And er so he never had any sleep that night , well that was the that 's a story about them days . |
| 24 | You know , women with only one tit , they cut the other off so they could shoot better with a bow and arrow , they live together , all women and no men , this woman 's written a play about them — ’ |
| 25 | It must also be remembered that they have certain rights while in the Department 's care not only in physical terms but also in relation to information which is held by the Department about them as individuals . |
| 26 | Not a hint of snobbery about them . |
| 27 | The terrors which Mr Cash expresses about our future in the community have a familiar ring about them . |
| 28 | Thereafter , events had an almost predetermined ring about them as Soviet action was matched by Western reaction . |
| 29 | Instead its concepts — like sharing responsibility between parents and the state , reaching agreements and partnerships — have a surprisingly communitarian or even collectivist ring about them . |
| 30 | The terms underemployment and ‘ disguised ’ unemployment have a negative ring about them and do little to help our understanding of this type of work . |