Example sentences of "him about the " in BNC.

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1 Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote .
2 I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time .
3 ‘ Then I 'd talk to him about the socio-economic roots of poverty . ’
4 Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians .
5 I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch .
6 Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January .
7 Officially he does not share Bacon 's acceptance of formal causes , and even his agreement with him about the relevance to human actions of the final causes of Aristotelian tradition is qualified by the thought that , in the end , they are reducible to efficient causes .
8 Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind .
9 His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot .
10 He told various stories when journalists interviewed him about the book and pryed into his background .
11 Anthony would probably move on sooner or later ; his bosses , two Anglo-Italian academics , had already warned him about the carelessness of his work .
12 Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’
13 Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing .
14 When Esau next asks him about the purpose of the three droves sent on ahead ( it would appear that the slaves accompanying them have not passed on Jacob 's message ) , Jacob answers , ‘ To find favour in the sight of my lord . ’
15 ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’
16 She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself .
17 One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity .
18 She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her .
19 When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’
20 I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation .
21 I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings .
22 I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents .
23 There was a Captain Dennis Babbage whose hobby was Bradshaw , the famous railway time-table ; and anyone who had a journey to make was welcome to consult him about the easiest ( or most interestingly complicated ) route to take .
24 I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way .
25 It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here .
26 When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been .
27 Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it .
28 When not doing his rare caddying stints , Tip can be found enjoying a beer and an occasional rum-chaser at the Dunvegan Hotel , overlooking those revered links that are a constant reminder of his glory years , and a spur to his memory when the young caddies ask him about the good old days .
29 Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt .
30 He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet .
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