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Example sentences of "him about [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun .
2	My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us .
3	I went the doctor 's and told him about me back .
4	And she had talked to him about me . ’
5	He 's the biggest gossip in the Club so be careful what you tell him about me .
6	What have you told him about me ? ’
7	‘ What did you tell him about me ? ’
8	‘ Did you tell him about me ? ’ demanded Penry .
9	He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them .
10	Hanns must have replied teasing him about them , because he now wrote indignantly , ‘ My parts are definitely not all ‘ A Man ’ — one ( Pierrot ) is a lead , the fisherman is a big part and so is the Russian ; the other ( the owl , not the grasshopper ) is not so good . ’
11	He suggested books she might read and when she had , she wrote to him about them .
12	Later Sarah and her mother came to see Julia , and she told them that Joe was at Dover and Anne had written to reassure him about them .
13	He likes me to tell him about them . ’
14	Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them .
15	They had not warned him about its appearance ; the head was nearly severed , and the face slashed to pieces by a whip .
16	In her letter she told him about her job , her salary and the contract she had won yesterday .
17	She would n't tell him about her income , even when he was trying to fill in his tax forms .
18	That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy .
19	Anna told him about her childhood , about the house in West Kensington that resembled a gigantic , filthy theatrical props cupboard , smelling of face powder and cats and old ashtrays , where a five-foot plaster saint , dumped on the drawing-room sofa three years before , as a joke , by one of her mother 's lovers , had subsequently never been moved .
20	The final insult is that he has not only forfeited his ‘ honest faith ’ in taking up with her but that his eyes have even deceived him about her beauty : she is ‘ foul ’ in every sense .
21	He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days .
22	Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic .
23	In her mind she talked to him , telling him about her life , day-to-day things , carrying on with him a long intimate dialogue .
24	She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him .
25	Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ?
26	She had explained to him about her mother ; he had met her mother ; he had seemed to size up the problem , had said the right things in his oblique way .
27	She told him about her easy acceptance that there was a repeated message from Barbara Coleman .
28	She told him about her promise to Ross .
29	Karen told him about her life and her work , and why she was in Haiti .
30	His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability .