Example sentences of "i about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 2 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 3 | Given its urgency , I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman did not write to me about such a detailed case , which would have enabled me to deal with it earlier . |
| 4 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 5 | I guess he was still mad at me about Syrian George . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 7 | Abraham Ling , a farm-worker from Blaxhall , told me about 1950 , and I recorded his remarks a little later : |
| 8 | He 's talked to me about all that stuff too . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the other evening , he starts asking me about all the new sorts of mobile phone on the market — how they work , what their range is , how much they cost . |
| 10 | He was quite frank with me about all this . |
| 11 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 13 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 14 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 15 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 16 | Do n't ask me about that . |
| 17 | One thing baffles me about that , Lord Wilson : you were Prime Minister , you were the boss , you were presiding over Cabinet government . |
| 18 | If they mentioned him , she would mutter , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that rat . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me about that job . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , of course , and for pity 's sake stop reminding me about that . |
| 22 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 23 | Can you tell me about that ? |
| 24 | I 've never been there , talk to me about that . ’ |
| 25 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 26 | As one contracts manager put it , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that health needs nonsense , we 're just trying to keep the lid on . ’ |
| 27 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 28 | Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again . |
| 29 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 30 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |