Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun prp] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little .
2 Later , over a mug of tea , I asked Mick about the message he had for me .
3 I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport .
4 I asked László about the corso : ‘ Yes , it did exist here before the war and now , gradually , it is coming back , along the embankment by the international hotels . ’
5 I told Warton about the descent , then the ditching ahead of us , which seemed to be a perfectly controlled set-down ’ .
6 So I told Helen about the hunger-strike .
7 I told Debbie about the house only John did n't know .
8 I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind .
9 She told Maggie about the palace of the Princess Tang Li , north of Beijing , which she had visited with her own beautiful mother , Maggie 's great-grandmother .
10 She told Pascoe about the house and the woman she had seen there ; she told a little of her meeting with Luke ; the rest she kept for herself .
11 She knew she would feel a good deal less proud when she told Alice about the penalty clause .
12 Did you ask Pete about the holiday off ?
13 I think those , those were some of the things were n't they s I do n't know I mean we asked Geoff about the end of month reports , you know ?
14 He alleged that when he asked Scott about the planning , he received only an off-hand reply .
15 ‘ Then he wo n't have told you what he told Heather about the evening you dined there . ’
16 He told Georgiades about the killing .
17 Paul described the members of the church as the men of God , when he told Timothy about the value of God 's word .
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