Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 2 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 3 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 4 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 5 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 6 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 10 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 12 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 13 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 14 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 15 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 16 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 17 | Again Jacob thought he must bring himself to do something about the increasing hold this man had on Katherine 's life . |
| 18 | Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp . |
| 19 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 20 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 23 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 24 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 25 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 26 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 27 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 28 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 29 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 30 | The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome . |