Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] 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 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 12 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 13 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 18 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 19 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 20 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 26 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 27 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 28 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 29 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 30 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |