Example sentences of "about his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chunky heard about his and we became friends . ’ |
| 2 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
| 3 | One young man recently told me about his emotionally disturbed mother , who attempted suicide but succeeded only in permanently injuring herself . |
| 4 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 5 | Members came from a variety of backgrounds , many as knowledgeable about their own regions as Watkins was about his . |
| 6 | Major has been embarrassed by unauthorised revelations : about his engagingly eccentric brother , Terry , who still bears the family 's original surname , Major-Ball ; and his sister Pat , now retired and in straitened circumstances , who was once taken to court for failing to pay the rates . |
| 7 | In the song , a newly urbanized man feels somewhat guilty about his and others ' deviation from the ways of their ancestors : |
| 8 | Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it . |
| 9 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 10 | Some felt uncomfortable about his previously close involvement with Bernie Ecclestone , the man behind dark glasses who is president of the Formula One Constructors Association ( FOCA ) and the true power-broker of the sport . |
| 11 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 12 | But the expectation would not be driven out … and yet Harrison was a fine man and there was something about his miserably presented directness which made her want to scoop him up . |
| 13 | For these reasons , it is possible to hope that the House of Lords might , if called upon to do so , reconsider the decision in a way that makes it plain that the right to freedom of speech in public is not wholly dependent upon the discretion of the policeman on the spot — important though that will undoubtedly always be — but is guided by rules and principles that recognise , inter alia the importance of freedom of speech in public , and the fact that the person interfered with was going about his otherwise lawful business . |
| 14 | In the case of Dr Jordan , they have the figures in front of them and it 's quite understandable that questions should be asked about his unusually high night-time payments . |
| 15 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's all right , darling , ’ Laura murmured , reaching up to put her slim arms about his clearly unhappy figure , and cradling his dark head against her breast . |
| 17 | What about his ? |
| 18 | he still go on about his to do these . |
| 19 | Tell the President that you have read about Abd Al-Ru'uf 's allegation that he was tortured , and about his lawyer 's complaint . |
| 20 | How much of the books about Pollock will be biography and how much will be about his art ? |
| 21 | An extremist view expressed by a twentieth-century artist is what Matisse had to say about his responses to murals by Giotto . |
| 22 | And Fry was straightforward about his own perceptions . |
| 23 | His dealer Ambroise Vollard wrote a book of reminiscences about the painter , including a famous passage about his portrait . |
| 24 | Many readers must have sighed with regret that so few of Gainsborough 's letters have survived , since the charm of his style is so fresh ; it is easy to sympathise with him writing about his professional commitment to portraiture , on behalf of two fine ladies , his daughters : |
| 25 | Here is an American artist writing about his dismay at the work he saw at Paris in 1831 : |
| 26 | His secretary , the poet Rainer Maria Rilke , wrote with feeling about his work , but during the 1920s Rodin was less regarded , and not until after the Second World War did his reputation revive under the stimulus of exhibitions and increasingly careful cataloguing of his work . |
| 27 | One story about his teaching is that a new student would be told to observe a fish in a tank . |
| 28 | Such articles may not start with art ; as Rudolf Arnheim said about his book , Art and Visual Perception , he applied principles of visual perception to examples taken from the arts . |
| 29 | Fraser 's book is not without its evident presuppositions , and not every reader will feel that this autobiographer , having perused and digested his tape-recordings , talked to his analyst and completed his inner and outer voyages , knew something radically different about his past from what he had known before : that something had been found , or proved . |
| 30 | He felt a need to discover who he was , and to write directly about that , and about his books , to step out of the shadows . |