Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 2 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 3 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 4 | I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l |
| 5 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 8 | Baldwin saw Chamberlain and said , ‘ Austen , when Sam has gone I shall want to talk to you about the Foreign Office . ’ ’ |
| 9 | What was it she had said to him about the missing family silver ? |
| 10 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 11 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |
| 12 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 13 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 14 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |
| 15 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 16 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 17 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is |
| 19 | We also reviewed such evidence as has been submitted to us about the possible relation between the number of executions in particular years and the incidence of murder in succeeding years . |
| 20 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 21 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 22 | ‘ Then I 'd talk to him about the socio-economic roots of poverty . ’ |
| 23 | Do n't talk to me about the wonderful Victoria . ’ |
| 24 | Does he talk to you about the Medieval Circle ? ’ |
| 25 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 26 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 27 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 28 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |