Example sentences of "[verb] them about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 2 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 3 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 4 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 5 | And the protesters ' anger was heightened when Environment Secretary Michael Howard refused to see them about their fears . |
| 6 | ‘ However , current Education Minister John Patten said he regarded Church schools as making a crucial contribution to education but he had n't actually consulted them about opting out . ’ |
| 7 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 8 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 9 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 10 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 11 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 12 | Mahmoud asked them about the girl . |
| 13 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 14 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 15 | Is that the day Jane asked them about the pension , how much there 'd |
| 16 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 17 | I mean where you buy the , the thing from you 'd think the seldom , the spares as you want them about every four months |
| 18 | We did n't like the fact that our male companions smelt like compost heaps , but we did n't dream of challenging them about it . |
| 19 | It is only in cases of the most violent attacks that parents get to know what has been happening because , as the girls told me ‘ we do n't like to worry them about it . |
| 20 | The BD8 Form is sent to the Social Services Department and a social worker will then visit the family to inform them about the services and allowances that may be available to them . |
| 21 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 22 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 23 | When , however , the chairman of the SIB , supposedly at the apex of a system of self-regulation , calls for a ‘ clear shift to a less self-regulatory basis ’ , when the chairman of Prudential Corporation says that the government should ‘ organise investor protection on a fully statutory basis under direct government control ’ , and when the chairman of BAT Industries ( which owns Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar ) adds that ‘ self-regulation has not really worked ’ , it would be futile to start quizzing them about whether ‘ self-regulation ’ is really an accurate description of the present system . |
| 24 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 25 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 26 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 27 | Someone told them about us and we were sent a tea-chest full of filthy dirty , celluloid toys . |
| 28 | She told them about ‘ Factota Limited ’ , and asked their advice — and no two people could have been kinder . |
| 29 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all . |