Example sentences of "[pron] be about [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of them are about you . |
| 2 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 3 | I was slightly annoyed at Jamie saying anything , even jokingly , about me going to the toilet ; he knows how sensitive I am about it . |
| 4 | ‘ Put mine there too , ’ she said , ‘ and while I 'm about it , anyone who would like to join our Amateur Dramatics Group is very welcome . |
| 5 | ‘ Right , and I 'll take a shufti round the wood while I 'm about it . |
| 6 | Those questions seem to me to be inexorably leading to ‘ And while I 'm about it , why do n't you clean your fingernails and wash your hair ? ’ |
| 7 | What the hell , though , while I 'm about it — the whole truth . |
| 8 | I fetch myself another gin while I 'm up and pour a bit in Mum 's tea while I 'm about it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’ |
| 10 | Well I 'm about I waver now between eight stone ten and |
| 11 | I 'm about I 'm midway through it . |
| 12 | ‘ While I was about it , I put a fiver for you on a nice little filly called General Motors . ’ |
| 13 | You see how wrong you are about her , hmm ? ’ |
| 14 | And while you are about it , please drop that stupid name Aotearoa for New Zealand . |
| 15 | The second in command : The chief in awe of his Adviser ( cf " Whale " in " Using Poetry " , Chapter 2 ) , Monarch 's dogsbody , Deputy , go-between : " I ca n't do anything about it , but I 'll tell her how unhappy you are about it . " |
| 16 | ‘ Why not beat the others too while you 're about it ? |
| 17 | And while you 're about it , where can I get something to eat ? ’ |
| 18 | While you 're about it , get him in for some For Eyes . " |
| 19 | ‘ Do that , and , while you 're about it , try to remember that we 're colleagues , and that colleagues do not go around kissing one another ! |
| 20 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 21 | Why is it that when she 's about you go into the bathroom dressed , and you come out dressed . |
| 22 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 23 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 24 | Er , he said , while we 're about it , you could n't lend me your bass as well , could you ? |
| 25 | And while we 're about it I 'll give you the name of the best dentist in America . |
| 26 | Salmonella , Legionnaire 's — I mean , let's have some real crises while we 're about it . |
| 27 | I 'm in , and that 's all there is about it . ’ |
| 28 | In an obituary , Seamus Heaney wrote , ‘ There was about him a delicate wildness , and he often thought that the hare , about which he had gathered so many entrancing stories , was his proper , total animal . |
| 29 | Even like that , hopelessly drunk and quite tired out , there was about him an appealing look of promise , of everything that can be meant by friendship . |
| 30 | There was about her something inhuman , and while I saw her as fey rather than remote , I was aware of my own inhumanity : something in me which was arid and incapable of desire . |