Example sentences of "[vb past] him about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 2 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 3 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 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 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 6 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 7 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 8 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 9 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |