Example sentences of "about [pron] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their farms were usually small , often less than a hundred acres , and we know much less about them than about the gentry . |
| 2 | He was worried about them and by the time he came down the gang had gone . |
| 3 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 4 | Well , you do n't wan na worry about them because at the end of the day , I mean if if that was absolutely desperate I shall turn round and say well I 'm sorry I 've bloody got to and that 's it ! |
| 5 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 6 | I am sure that is what the family remembered best about me because of the way the mother 's letter began . |
| 7 | I think there is a lot of immaturity in it and selfishness , putting yourself at great risk for a photograph , selfish in the sense of your family ; I 'm not so much worried about me as about the effect it will have on my parents , my children or my wife . |
| 8 | Man is endowed with an insatiable curiosity about himself and about the world around him , in his perception of which his own nature finds its reflection . |
| 9 | It is our counterpart to the psychoanalyst 's ‘ training analysis ’ ( or simulated illness and cure ) , a traumatic endurance test in which the tyro anthropologist discovers almost as much about himself as about the people he has come to study . |
| 10 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 11 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 12 | Apart from reviews , nothing seemed to have been written about her except for a sympathetic article by Richard Strachey in the London Mercury . |
| 13 | She knows that her parents are anxious about her because of the radiation . |
| 14 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 15 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |
| 16 | But she had not thought much about it because of the hint — reading between the lines — that soon they would be together always . |
| 17 | A TRANMERE man who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little or nothing about it because of the quantity of drink he had consumed . |
| 18 | A MAN who attacked two sisters at a party told police he remembered little about it because of the amount of drink he had consumed . |
| 19 | ‘ She often talked about it and about the kindness of the family who gave her a room . |
| 20 | They hear the access road is coming , they are not consulted , they do n't know anything about it and over the years again I must reiterate . |
| 21 | erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began . |
| 22 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 23 | Over the next few months we talked and prayed about it and in the Spring we submitted applications for staffing on the King 's Lodge Base at Nuneaton , starting in April 1993 . |
| 24 | And when I think back you know when I think about it and in the lower class of family even pyjamas were unknown . |
| 25 | I 'll put Aline straight and try and get Tom to belt up about it when amongst the boys . |
| 26 | ‘ I never used the word ‘ hippy ’ about myself except in a jocular way . |
| 27 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 28 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |