Example sentences of "[vb pp] me about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She should have consulted me about Apricot 's name , ’ said Ken . |
| 2 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 3 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 4 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 5 | I 'm allowed to do anything , my mum will let me drink , smoke , take drugs , anything really , well well she probably would n't actually but , you know she never tells me off , she 's never lectured me about anything , she 's never given me a talk on |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I said that 's bo , that 's bothered me about that bleeding , I like him a lot . |
| 8 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 9 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 10 | At a nearby house , Leonard Hough , a retired schoolmaster , had earlier told me about ‘ the fog ’ which he says comes from the factory . |
| 11 | ‘ Lee has n't told me about you , ’ said Lee 's Mum . |
| 12 | He had already told me about his girl-friend , an American student of modern dance in West Berlin . |
| 13 | You have n't told me about her . |
| 14 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 15 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 16 | Had the bodies been those of the missing S.A.S. troops , I reasoned , then they could no longer have been ‘ missing ’ , and the Padre would certainly had told me about their discovery . |
| 17 | You see , ’ he said , as Peggy put her hand in his , ‘ I 'm very interested in what you 've told me about someone stealing bulbs . |
| 18 | I was remembering what my father had told me about other conquering heroes who had tried to attack the great bear . |
| 19 | Andy Norman and Ron had frequently told me about athletes who were content to be the British number one , to make the team . |
| 20 | I 've never met her , but from what you 've told me about her I doubt it very much . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |
| 23 | Dear Father , It is a great pleasure to write to my father as my mother has often told me about him , and I hope to be allowed to get to know him better … |
| 24 | ‘ You 've told me about Joe Burns . |
| 25 | Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone . |
| 26 | THAT 'S GREAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT … |
| 27 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 28 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
| 29 | Elaine has told me about her sister 's death . |
| 30 | Mavis has told me about it . |