Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Muawad has said nothing about the composition of his cabinet , but is expected to include Mr Selim el-Hoss , Prime Minister in a rival administration to Gen Aoun . |
| 2 | He has said nothing about the government 's economic package , with its plan for a FFr68 billion rise in taxes . |
| 3 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 4 | A person who is prepared to be named — I shall give the information if called to do so — has told me about the discrimination on training in a trust hospital in Leeds . |
| 5 | Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ? |
| 6 | But the national press has published nothing about the ambiguity surrounding the Milwaukee Project . |
| 7 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 8 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 9 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 10 | She was in a fairly emotional state , in that she 'd known nothing about the wedding , wondered why she had n't been told , and demanded the time and location of the ceremony . |
| 11 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 12 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 13 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 14 | You you do n't have to know anything about the problem to specify them . |
| 15 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 16 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 17 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 18 | Then the government and the factory managers will have to do something about the dangers of your work . ’ |
| 19 | She could have asked him about the carrots . |
| 20 | As viewers of this scene we could also have deduced something about the relationship between John and Mary from the way they were sitting together and the way they looked at each other . |
| 21 | ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’ |
| 22 | You may also have read something about the furore surrounding the production . |
| 23 | Undermining his mother 's social prestige was-one thing , having to tell her about the book himself was another . |
| 24 | I 've quizzed him about the noise , but he says he 's never heard it — well of course he has n't , he 's fast asleep ! |
| 25 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 26 | A sheet of rain had come down then , a hard , gusty shower , while they were laying the squares of turf back in place , and Adam had said something about the rain making the grass grow quickly , the rain being on their side . |
| 27 | It will be remembered that during the last 30 years of life the King had suffered from a distressing illness that resulted in his being kept under guard and even put into a straight-jacket : if he had said anything about the origin of the instrument it is unlikely that much weight would be given to his words . |
| 28 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 29 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 30 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |