Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] about his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 2 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 3 | He told her about his old school . |
| 4 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 5 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 6 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 7 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 8 | ‘ I am constantly painting , scrubbing out and reworking areas of a picture and often marvellous unexpected results will emerge ’ explained Mick Rooney when Julian Halsby asked him about his working methods in this special interview for The Artist |
| 9 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 10 | Taxi driver Dermot Smith stabbed his wife Norma , 45 , four times after she taunted him about his sexual performance compared to her lover . |
| 11 | It was Peters who chided him about his frail physique , which led to his regular attendance at August 's Gymnasium , which was in the basement of Apley Hall . |
| 12 | Going to him , she wound her arms into his smoking-jacket and snaked them about his naked body . |