Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
2 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
3 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
4 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
5 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
6 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
7 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
8 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
9 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
10 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
11 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
12 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
13 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
14 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
15 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
16 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
17 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |