Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 2 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |
| 3 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 4 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 5 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 6 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 8 | And they go around er and you warn them about the erm the steep steps into the rooms because the oak is quite deep . |
| 9 | And she said what about the bed at the Cottage Hospital ? |
| 10 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 11 | They talked to her about her ancestors , and about the Bright Palace which they called Teamhair in their soft voices , and they told her about the battles and the people who had made Ireland magical and marvellous and richer in folklore than any country could ever be . |
| 12 | And they know nothing about the flat , of course . ’ |
| 13 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 14 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 15 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 16 | So it , it , it 's a , it goes much beyond merely a kind of er , cliche , of saying , all people can be sometimes good or people can be sometimes bad , and it tells you about the specific way in which this th this comes about . |
| 17 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 18 | ‘ But you tell them about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 19 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 20 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 21 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |