Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.

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1 So I tell him about the search for her , and he sits and listens .
2 So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 .
3 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 … .
4 So you tell them about the thirty five percent you tell them about the banker 's order that will need signing .
5 So we busy ourselves about the house or go on holiday in much the same way as we do our jobs .
6 Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus .
7 Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called .
8 And she rang me this morning for , well er it was so comical cos Gemma had said to me yesterday you know what about the holiday and I said sure that does n't have to be paid till the end of the month and erm you sure before we go into this ?
9 And I 'd rather they did something about the service instead of advertising that they 're getting there when they 're patently not . ’
10 Er I 'd , I 'd picked out because I knew a lot about the client whereas here I know nothing about the client .
11 Try and get a dual flight on the airfield so that at least you know something about the airfield and its surrounds .
12 Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant .
13 Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them !
14 Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism :
15 Yet it proves nothing about the Commons .
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