Example sentences of "about [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because you 've found something out about them that nobody else knows ? ’ |
| 2 | Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard . |
| 3 | ‘ They 'll be terrified of hearing you say something about them that they ca n't bear . ’ |
| 4 | On his return to France he was so enthusiastic about them that he even planted a trial field and let the local population steal them so that they could experience this new vegetable for themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ He has to put his proposals to the parties now , because he has made so many public comments about them that he has no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Those years had an intensity , a singularity and a sense of joy about them that I have not known before or since . |
| 7 | Well what do you know about them that you say they 've |
| 8 | ‘ You are n't worried that there might be things about me that you wo n't like ? |
| 9 | Initially , a swift , artistically rough job was contemplated , a ‘ tendentious piece ’ which would take a few months to write and would enrage ‘ the nihilists and Westerners ’ and set them ‘ howling about me that I 'm a retrograde . |
| 10 | I know something about you that you do not know yourself ’ He paused , again as if to let me prepare myself . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure I should n't have , but I was feeling so guilty about you that I would have agreed to do anything you asked . ’ |
| 12 | and I know something that she told me about you that I know that she do n't , she do n't know that I , I know that , you do n't know that , I know |
| 13 | What 's the next obvious thing , very very obvious thing about him that we 're forgetting ? |
| 14 | Syl 's oboe was another of the things about him that I could n't bear . |
| 15 | I felt once again like a child , like a child who walks into a room and is aware that everyone there knows something about him that he does not . |
| 16 | He was much the same height as Hotspur , and much the same build , though twenty years at least older , and a century more crafty , and there was always the curious suggestion about him that he was ready and waiting to fit himself into the void if ever Hotspur slipped out of being . |
| 17 | I know something about him that he does n't know I know . |
| 18 | ‘ There was , ’ said Timothy West , a ‘ dark quality about him that he did n't let people see very much of . |
| 19 | What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look ? |
| 20 | It was true that Harvey Newbegin 's family had come from Russia but there was nothing Slavic about him that anyone but Signe could detect . |
| 21 | She ran to meet him , weak with relief , but he was very vague as to why he was late and there was a remoteness about him that she could not penetrate . |
| 22 | She noticed things about him that she had been forced to ignore . |
| 23 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 24 | Jane was a Welsh woman from the Gower Peninsula , and there was something about her that my grandfather had not realized when he married her after my grandmother died so young : she came of very inbred stock , and had periodic mental lapses . |
| 25 | There was a contenting assurance about her that he found restful . |
| 26 | Catherine seemed to be unconscious , and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment . |
| 27 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 28 | I 'm finding out things about her that I never could have known . ’ |
| 29 | What 's he know about it that we do n't ? |
| 30 | or they 're so serious about it that they 'll probably be watching everything , you know , just to sort of make sure that they know everything about |