Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 2 | He had lurched about a London drinking club soon after the Hiss case claiming ‘ I am the English Hiss ! ’ |
| 3 | What he had loved about Sylvie had always in part been his inability to pin her down , to capture her . |
| 4 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 5 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 6 | This doctrine appears in an altered form in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads where Wordsworth tells us that he had written about ‘ low and rustic life … because in that situation the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity ’ . |
| 7 | A history lecturer , U Myo Min , brought to him a book that he had written about the subject . |
| 8 | He was questioned about his earlier activities , and told his interrogators that he had been encouraged in his attack on royal policies by Catherine 's confessor , Father William Peto , and by John Fisher , bishop of Rochester [ qq.v. ] , who had given him a tract he had written about papal primacy . |
| 9 | She was introduced to the novelist Mr Henry James , and took tea with him at his home , Lamb House , in Rye , and he thought that she was all the beautiful American girls he had written about rolled into one ! |
| 10 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 11 | Still behind her , Luke had bent his head and had been murmuring his taunts close to one ear , while the strong arms he had bound about her waist were tightening securely , making her captivity a torment . |
| 12 | He had explained about Ari , vehemently disagreed with Zambia 's suggestion he should make himself known to the girl , and tortured himself out loud with conjectures about how Roirbak and Leila might , at this very moment , be destroying Ari 's abilities beneath their feet . |
| 13 | Sandison remembered some vague promise he had made about leaving the city when he was satisfied that Elsie was indeed alive and well . |
| 14 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 15 | Straightening , the Doctor looked around , noticing for the first time that the hill he had asked about earlier when he was with Howard , was also visible from here . |
| 16 | Major 's reply suggested that , as an interested visitor from another solar system , he had heard about human personality but regretfully had no first-hand experience of this rare bird , though he was prepared to extend it every reasonable courtesy . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) The class was asked to instruct me and one of the pupils in how to behave as a reporter and doctor respectively , the reporter wanting information from the busy doctor about ‘ these new machines ’ he had heard about . |
| 18 | Crippled with arthritis and wheelchair-bound , at 77 Renoir detested meeting strangers but he had heard about Modigliani from Osterlind and , almost certainly , from Zborowski and agreed to the visit . |
| 19 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 20 | Enclosing this sketch in his letter Monshe mentioned a district he had heard about , called the Borinage . |
| 21 | He also asked her to keep an eye on his widow because he had heard about the carrying-on with the women-folk . |
| 22 | He had heard about Louise 's move and the thought of losing Constance had affected him more than he had imagined possible . |
| 23 | Thinking of young lives , his mind jumped back to yesterday , when he had heard about young Harrington . |
| 24 | Perhaps even more significant for the future , Anselm also told Lanfranc that he had heard about Dunstan 's rule of life for monks : would Lanfranc please send it to him ? |
| 25 | There he boldly repeated a story he had heard about Henry 's relations with the sister of Anne Boleyn [ q.v. ] and her mother . |
| 26 | He had heard about the Old Magic at University , although it was forbidden to wizards . |
| 27 | And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere . |
| 28 | He had heard about the lack of hospitals , the lack of schools ; heard that the same conditions exist throughout the Third World . |
| 29 | Ever since he had heard about Maisie and the headmaster they had risen in swarms , like rats leaving a sewer . |
| 30 | He recognized the mythago form ( Wynne-Jones whispered to Tallis in the silence of the night ) from stories he had heard about them . |