Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 2 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 4 | ‘ My captain phoned you about the two people from OM-45 . |
| 5 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 6 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 7 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |
| 8 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
| 9 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |