Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , even we could n't be sure about them until they rammed us . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | knew exactly that he was talking about me and I thought what ? |
| 5 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've thought so much more about you since I imagined you did n't even want to see me again . |
| 7 | ‘ Because somebody was asking Kenny about you when he had his accident . ’ |
| 8 | I only found out about you when I saw his car parked outside that night . ’ |
| 9 | He was in a very bad state of mind about you when I left him . ’ |
| 10 | I told them in school about you and they said I was ideally positioned . ’ |
| 11 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |
| 12 | He looked about him as he made his way through , horrified by the squalor , the ugliness of everything he saw , and wondered how he had stood it . |
| 13 | His coat fronts were pulled about her while he nursed her as though she were a small child . |
| 14 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 15 | Edward , utterly wretched , put his arms about her and she raised her mouth to his . |
| 16 | Polly decided to do something about it before it smothered her . |
| 17 | The issues became purely the military , the political and the humane problem of what you were going to do about it once you had it . ’ |
| 18 | And he said this and he was n't I mean particularly , he said oh she 's just , you know she , she 's like sailed through Haileybury , she gets out of everything , she , he , he 's really keen on the sports side of things here so I do n't know why he got so het up about it but he said it really er pissed him off the way she erm |
| 19 | I could n't sleep or eat for thinking about it but I decided I was not going to be beaten by AIDS . ’ |
| 20 | It was Mrs Iverson who was telling us about it after he mentioned it . ’ |
| 21 | The scenario had such an element of truth about it that she found herself embroidering details . |
| 22 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 23 | Did n't wan na tell anybody about it cos he knew they , they they could say well ca n't you organize things better than that ? |
| 24 | Striker Gary Bull said : ‘ I did n't know anything about it until I saw it on Ceefax . ’ |
| 25 | More like a volcano erupting than a steam engine blowing its top , Nick always said , but he was touchy about it because it made him sick the first time . |
| 26 | Cobalt said wryly : ‘ Yes , and he only told me about it because I paid him . ’ |
| 27 | I told Stanley Kubrick ( his director in The Shining ) about it and we wrote it into the scene . |
| 28 | She told the other girls about it and they found his ignorance quaint and charming . |
| 29 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 30 | The thing , story in the Land Army magazine is about remembering the new recruited went out first day to go muck-spreading and she was going about it and she stuck her fork in and she landed flat on her face in a heap ! |