Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] he 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 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 8 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |