Example sentences of "about [pers pn] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Strawberry came through the hedge by the crabapple tree , looked about him and made his way to Hazel . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So he 'll be glad to know that she thought about him and wanted him to know it . ’ |
| 7 | Her thin lips clasped tight together , fearing any sound might betray her , she hooked her legs about him and pulled him further and further into her . |
| 8 | I learnt a lot about her and saw her side of why she took up illnesses as a comfort . ’ |
| 9 | Kāli stood outside and shouted , ‘ Hiu āgo ! ’ and , tilting her head back , mouth open wide , watched the flakes fall about her and felt them melt like icy duck-down on the warmth of her outstretched tongue . |
| 10 | Loulou flung his arms about her and kissed her lovingly on the mouth . |
| 11 | Out of sight and sound of the house , in the wood , he put his arms about her and kissed her hungrily ; and she returned his kisses with fervour , muttering , ‘ Oh Charlie . |
| 12 | He put his arms about her and lowered his face to meet her lips , then came and sat with them . |
| 13 | Richard put his arms awkwardly about her and brushed her lips with his . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , there was a distracting painting which had something of Vanessa 's style about it and sent his thoughts scurrying back to her . |
| 15 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 16 | Mary got stroppy about it and said it was wrong what they were doing , it was a desecration . |
| 17 | We talked about it and said it would be nice to have a baby . |
| 18 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 19 | Maxim knew her driving well enough to be relaxed about it and spent his time folding and refolding a road map . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series . |
| 21 | She read about it and saw it on television . |
| 22 | He seemed very cheerful about it and chanted his ridiculous Ho ! |
| 23 | The window had cost Yanto a lot of money , until the girl 's father heard about it and reimbursed him . |
| 24 | He was n't happy about it and extracted my promise not to try , on any account , to negotiate . |
| 25 | The King ‘ was very good-natured about it and set her down immediately . ’ |
| 26 | We 've talked about it and decided we 'd move in here , in Tom 's cottage . |
| 27 | You know we 've corrected it and gone on about it and discussed it . |
| 28 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 29 | Mum knew about us and mentioned it to Sarah when we came back here after your wedding . ’ |