Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 34 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 35 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 36 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 37 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 38 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
| 39 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 40 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 41 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 42 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 43 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 44 | He is a zealous Cassandra , frantically warning us about the Trojan Horse of Monsieur Delors 's federalism . |
| 45 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 46 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 47 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 48 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 49 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 50 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 51 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 52 | It 's strange the way Chinese Whispers start about certain guitars ; by the time the umpteenth person has told you about the amazing instrument that they 've seen , you begin to be very sceptical about whether anything can be as outrageous as described … |
| 53 | In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics . |
| 54 | Label every area and then use what they give you about the total number . |
| 55 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 56 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 57 | Did we think we about the old staff did you say ? |
| 58 | So tell them about the new-look BROWNIE . |
| 59 | ‘ Tell me about the Highest Science . ’ |
| 60 | Tell me about the one day schools for school teachers that you run . |