Example sentences of "about [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what we were told about them that made us frightened . |
| 2 | ‘ Was there anything at all about them that struck you as odd ? ’ |
| 3 | Ward was still asleep when I turned right and headed eastwards towards the Andes , the mist a white vapour , the rice fields , the cacti , the occasional trees , all having a weirdness about them that matched my mood and added to my growing fear of what lay ahead , beyond the mountains I could not see . |
| 4 | If the tracks are there , visitors will find out about them and use them . |
| 5 | The agonies of reading one 's most intimate feelings and thoughts aloud to a roomful of strangers , and then being expected to talk about them and explain them in an acceptably relaxed and humorous manner were more than I could bear . |
| 6 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 7 | The consequence was inertia ; no controversial issue could ever hope to be resolved satisfactorily , so governments , preoccupied with survival , merely tended to forget about them or postpone them to some indeterminate future date . |
| 8 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 9 | At the close of the Ecclesiastical History Bede wrote that such serious commotions had characterized the beginning and course of the reign that it was impossible to know what to say about them or anticipate their eventual outcome ( HE V , 23 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 11 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 12 | Basically , they wanted to write a press release about me and distribute it to all the local newspapers , Radio Cornwall , Television South West and the BBC regional news programme , Spotlight . |
| 13 | ‘ I vowed to myself not to do this yet , but there 's something about you that melts my sternest resolutions . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’ |
| 15 | I 've heard things about you that make my stomach turn ! |
| 16 | ‘ Look , I 'm responsible for those rumors that have been circulating about you and damaging your reputation . |
| 17 | He stared at her , and there was an arrogance about him that made her shiver . |
| 18 | There was a Puritan austerity about him that made one doubt whether he ever enjoyed anything at all . |
| 19 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 21 | With a feeling of despair she knew there was altogether too much about him that attracted her , that made her want to respond . |
| 22 | Tall , lean-hipped and broad-shouldered , he seemed to tower over everyone else , and once again there was that air of casual elegance about him that had her looking him over with her heart in her mouth . |
| 23 | There was something about him that set him apart from the other men in the room . |
| 24 | His shoulders were tense and there was an air of waiting about him that troubled her . |
| 25 | ‘ And Mrs McDougall told you something about him that changed your minds ? ’ |
| 26 | There was too much of the outlaw about him that held its own fascination . |
| 27 | Denis returned to his seat , but before he could frame a new approach Josh Cohen started to drum his fingers on the tea-chest , looking about him and nodding his head in a calculating manner . |
| 28 | Strawberry came through the hedge by the crabapple tree , looked about him and made his way to Hazel . |
| 29 | She did n't envy anyone really ; but it would have been nice to have had a father , or at least to be able to remember him , and no matter how often her mother spoke about him and told her what he was like , there was a sort of emptiness inside her , and she was beginning to think there always would be There was a day in September which her mother kept special to remember her father . |
| 30 | He related some good anecdotes about him and told us that although the admiral had been killed in August , he had already chosen and wrapped up the Royal Family 's Christmas presents and — even more remarkable — had already chosen and wrapped up Prince Edward 's twenty-first birthday present , then six years away . |