Example sentences of "him about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not warned him about its appearance ; the head was nearly severed , and the face slashed to pieces by a whip . |
| 2 | In her letter she told him about her job , her salary and the contract she had won yesterday . |
| 3 | She would n't tell him about her income , even when he was trying to fill in his tax forms . |
| 4 | That was why she did not tell him about her pregnancy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 8 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 9 | In her mind she talked to him , telling him about her life , day-to-day things , carrying on with him a long intimate dialogue . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She told him about her easy acceptance that there was a repeated message from Barbara Coleman . |
| 14 | She told him about her promise to Ross . |
| 15 | Karen told him about her life and her work , and why she was in Haiti . |
| 16 | His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability . |
| 17 | This was n't the moment to tell him about her earlier worries . |
| 18 | Carolyn came round to his house that evening , and told him about her mother 's preparations for tea . |
| 19 | She was on the point of telling him about her investigations but it was all so uncertain and there was no point in raising false hopes . |
| 20 | She sighed , said , ‘ Do n't ask , ’ then continued to tell him about her husband , his experiments , his painful and sudden death , and the bomb aboard the craft . |
| 21 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly wondering what she was doing , telling him about her life . |
| 22 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |
| 23 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 24 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 25 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |
| 26 | THE parents of murdered schoolteacher Fiona Jones want to meet the French Ambassador to tell him about their dissatisfaction with the result of the recent trial . |
| 27 | He eyed Nathan suspiciously , clearly wondering whether he would survive the trip , but gave a reassuring ‘ impressed ’ look when Nat told him about our trip over Tromsdalen . |
| 28 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 29 | I mention Rachel 's old address , and ask him about our nocturnal visitors . |
| 30 | See we we have an awful lot of problems , I mean , not only the question of breaking into one 's home things like , car parking or things of a very high accident risk whereas , if we had a beat officer , at least we could set up some sort of local liaison , in so much that we could tell him about our sort of problems , and perhaps between us , resolve them . |