Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 2 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 3 | He was particularly skilled with animals and he knew something about veterinary work which came in very handy when any of the animals took ill , also during lambing and calving time . |
| 4 | He had a thick stick of some kind — quite short-in his hand , and he said something about this being a holdup , or a stick-up or some term I really did n't understand . |
| 5 | At that time he had been able to write to Lanfranc to ask if he remembered anything about these transactions . |
| 6 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |