Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] 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 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 12 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 13 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 14 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 15 | I said something about the political climate in the Argentine having changed since the Falklands War . |
| 16 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 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 warned them about the steep steps . |
| 25 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 26 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 27 | In fact , she liked everything about the dismal house with its strange air of disuse . |
| 28 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 29 | You see the thing is , I said , Gary said to me he said did you ask them about the over bed erm units and that and I said yeah , I said he wanted to , he , he said he could do the over bed unit for eighteen hundred plus the wardrobes for three eighty eight |
| 30 | Did we think we about the old staff did you say ? |