Example sentences of "[pers pn] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to Mr Vigo for them about a month back . ’ |
| 2 | Suppose you are having a conference for your sales people to tell them about a new product . |
| 3 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 4 | ‘ To tell them about a misunderstanding ? ’ |
| 5 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 6 | I fancy that 's what bothers them about a possible American end : whether Harry 's going to do any investigation of his own ideas over here . ’ |
| 7 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 8 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 9 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 10 | A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness : |
| 11 | The customer has ‘ opened up ’ to me about a significant current problem . |
| 12 | Keane , who is being pursued by Liverpool , Manchester United , Arsenal and Blackburn , admitted : ‘ Forest have spoken to me about a long-term contract , but I do n't want to get to the point where I am arguing over details and money . |
| 13 | I also had a rather childish trust in the police until the day they turned up on my doorstep to question me about a murder . |
| 14 | It 's taken me about a year to realize that the things I put down do n't actually disappear of their own accord . |
| 15 | She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis . |
| 16 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
| 17 | Mr Timothy 's telling me about a gypsy girl he and Andrew Manners met today . |
| 18 | Rodney Lines , editor of the Newsletter , and Baron Wright taught me much that was new to me about a favourite poet . |
| 19 | ‘ The last time I saw him he 'd been drinking pretty heavily and he pushed me about a bit . |
| 20 | ‘ And she writes to me about a man like this ! ’ |
| 21 | Yes the er the doctors were very very keen in those days they 'd repo , I remember Doctor telling me about a case on . |
| 22 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 23 | It took me about a day each to write , seal , stamp and post this letter of mine , but I managed to get the thing off in the end . |
| 24 | It was Mozaffar Alam , the Mughal historian , who told me about a book which became one of my favourite Delhi texts : the Muraqqa'-e-Dehli . |
| 25 | He relaxes and tells me about a new band he is producing . |
| 26 | A friend once told me about a Xingu ‘ Indian ’ he met in Brazil who went to Sao Paulo , a gigantic city , for the first time . |
| 27 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 28 | Who were the gaberlungi women who could tell me about a castle that it turns out you know all about ? |
| 29 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 30 | Nevil just walked with me about a foot off the floor until I hit the table with my stomach . |