Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] about [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 2 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 3 | However , what is behind Quine 's refusal to admit a prior substantive concept of reality — a corollary of his rejection of the a priori — is that our broadest conception of reality is derived from science ; ‘ science identifies and describes reality ’ and without science we have no way to think or talk about it at all . |
| 4 | The draft is still officially secret , but church sources said that leaks about it in the Italian press were generally correct . |
| 5 | So horrid as it all is , it 's not that much worse than reading about it in the newspapers . |
| 6 | It was impossible to be afraid ; but impossible not to be alert , alive , crisp in every sensation , glad in the headlong abundance of reviving life that washed about them on every side . |
| 7 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 8 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 9 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 10 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 11 | She was awake now , and looking about her in bewilderment . |
| 12 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 13 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 14 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 15 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 16 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 17 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 18 | The centre of this novel is the interpolated tale of the dead and beloved Tom Outland , who discovers a prehistoric and beautiful city in the sun on the mesa , and tells about it in immediate , enthusiastic prose . |
| 19 | Only with the repeal of these measures , the abolition of all laws based upon precepts of ‘ obscenity ’ and ‘ indecency ’ , and the opening up of the narrow , prescriptive sexual teachings insisted upon by the moralists , can we get on and live our lives , talk about our desires and argue about them without feeling ashamed or guilty . |
| 20 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 21 | It was here , at the BCHC that I first began to hear the dictionary of cancer , to see the effect of the disease and to learn about it in any useful and positive way . |
| 22 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 23 | Or you can classify the novel according to where it was written , " West of Scotland " , and think about it as an example of writing from this locality . |
| 24 | I open my eyes and think about it for a bit . |
| 25 | Why not talk it over with your family and think about it for a week or two ? ’ |
| 26 | So , I 'll bring my things in and think about it for a minute . |
| 27 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 28 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 29 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 30 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |