Example sentences of "be [pron] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be something about blending with the efficient American women he had seen around the city or it might be a feeling of exile . |
| 2 | Anyway , all I can remember is something about turning the other cheek which I do n't believe in . |
| 3 | There 's something about watching little birds , even dead ones , being torn to shreds by a powerful beak that turns my stomach . |
| 4 | You can , you can win something and then they 'll it 's something about going to see the Queen ! |
| 5 | that everybody said it 's something about going to the back door . |
| 6 | Appraisal is therefore not about identifying individuals for financial reward or promotion nor is it about penalising ‘ poor ’ performance — they are separate management processes . |
| 7 | Neither is it about performing actions slowly . |
| 8 | What is it about paying tax that brings out such juvenile spitefulness even among the strenuously respectable ? |
| 9 | She found she was trembling , not with fear but with excitement , there was something about helping the most unusual villain she 'd ever seen that stirred unknown feelings deep within her . |
| 10 | It was something about wishing she had the power to control conversations . |
| 11 | As far as she could remember , it was something about jumping out of the thing you cook in and into the thing you cooked on . |
| 12 | There was something about seeing him that way , first thing in the morning , dressed as she 'd never seen him before , in a cotton knit shirt and snug , faded jeans , that had made her throat tighten . |
| 13 | There was something about battling with him that made her feel unlike herself — weak , her mind in total confusion . |
| 14 | It was something about losing a baby … |