Example sentences of "that he [vb past] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the title of Khan was a military as well as a civil appointment had not occurred to him until now , but now that he thought about it , the suggestion seemed ridiculous . |
| 2 | His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money . |
| 3 | He was n't prepared to be carried along with the wave and the various things that he said about Europe were completely right for what he said . |
| 4 | He was not sure that he cared about the plot , if one existed . |
| 5 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 6 | As it was , the arrogance that he showed others in his business was mirrored by the doubts that he felt about himself . |
| 7 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 8 | And if he could be sure of that , there must be other things that he knew about himself . |
| 9 | I could tell immediately by the look on his face that he knew about Granny , for news travelled fast in our district and nothing was secret for long . |
| 10 | Francis once told me that his father , Scott , had two or three that he knew about . |
| 11 | I felt such a hypocrite in church , knowing that He knew about me , knowing that no matter how much I washed I was still unclean , unfit to stand in His house . |
| 12 | There was no medical problem highlighted that he knew about that he should have disclosed on the form . |
| 13 | And he thought as a result that he knew about everything else as well and Brenda , he did n't . |
| 14 | I share the agony that he expressed about the way in which Yugoslavia is tearing itself apart , not least because of some loose cannons in the Yugoslav army . |
| 15 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 16 | During the five minutes that he spoke about the Bill in his 52-minute speech he was floored by his own seconds — Conservative Back Benchers — when they expressed their concern . |
| 17 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 18 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 19 | It was after that that he complained about the brakes to Morrison . ’ |
| 20 | At the hospital with its crowd of out-patients and wards full of in-patients he was so busy , so plagued and hassled and rushed off his feet , and the women so submissive and ignorant or merely sullen , that he forgot about principles . |
| 21 | He was so excited that he forgot about the revenge the book was supposed to wreak on his parents . |
| 22 | Catherine seemed to be unconscious , and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment . |
| 23 | One of them said he was ‘ so fussy that he moaned about the smallest things — like the position of Miss Cuka 's arms in a scene ’ . |