Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 2 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 4 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 5 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 6 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 7 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 8 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 9 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 10 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 11 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 13 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 14 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 15 | I mean what about the E I C G , again this seems one that I thought might interest them ? |
| 16 | ‘ I mean it about the enemies . |
| 17 | ‘ I told her about the suffering of battered women and of the desperate need to make sure they have somewhere to run , ’ said Mrs Horley . |
| 18 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 19 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 20 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 21 | I told her about the meeting . |
| 22 | I told her about the hops . |
| 23 | I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza . |
| 24 | at er , I , I do n't remember anything , anything at all , but she said , I told her about the baby , she did n't know about that |
| 25 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 26 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 27 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 28 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 29 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 30 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |