Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 4 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 9 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 10 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 11 | She could have asked him about the carrots . |
| 12 | ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’ |
| 13 | Undermining his mother 's social prestige was-one thing , having to tell her about the book himself was another . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 18 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 19 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 20 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 21 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 22 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 23 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 24 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 25 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 26 | ‘ You can get out now if you want to , ’ he said , after he had told her about the phone call to Coy . |
| 27 | Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary . |
| 28 | Amaranth had repeated enough of what Harvey had told her about the motorway to make it worthwhile telephoning his partner in Arden to make local inquiries . |
| 29 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 30 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |