Example sentences of "i [verb] him about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 2 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 3 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 4 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 5 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 6 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 7 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 8 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 9 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 10 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 11 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 13 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 14 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 15 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 16 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 17 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 18 | I tell him about the whisky story and the chill-filtering and the colouring but he already seems to know it all . |
| 19 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 20 | So I tell him about the search for her , and he sits and listens . |
| 21 | I reminded him about the putter and took possession of it in the car park . |