Example sentences of "[noun] tell me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 2 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 3 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 4 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 5 | The carpenter tells me about the Khaki scouts . |
| 6 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 7 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 8 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |