Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him 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 | Er I told him about the other one . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
10 | 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 . |