Example sentences of "told [pers pn] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 2 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 3 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 4 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 5 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 6 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
| 7 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 8 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 9 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |