Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 2 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 3 | Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ? |
| 4 | They could never get him to tell anything about the life he had lived before he came to Knockglen . |
| 5 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
| 6 | Will he reassure me about the future of those patients who , until now , have been in the rheumatology unit of Ruchill hospital ? |
| 7 | He asked her about the place so much like the valley , the place where she 'd been born . |
| 8 | He muttered something about the place being primitive . |
| 9 | He told her about the fairies who lived in the holes on the river bank , and how Billy was half leprechaun . |
| 10 | He told her about the woman with the flute . |
| 11 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
| 12 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 13 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 14 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 15 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 16 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 17 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , he told me about the necessity of recasting . |
| 19 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 20 | I suppose I should be grateful he told me about the call at all , but he had to really , did n't he ? |
| 21 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He told me about the importance of eating and drinking on the course to maintain my energy level and to keep on the same emotional level throughout a round . ’ |
| 23 | He told me about the cross . |
| 24 | Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent . |
| 25 | like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David . |
| 26 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 27 | He clasped her about the waist , she pushed him away with a gesture that would have felled a man . |
| 28 | His hand , clasping her own as he steered her about the floor , was somewhat cold . |
| 29 | And , as he warned us about the hewers of coal , we are as capable of forgetting that , as he did , " as we forget the " blood in our veins ' . |
| 30 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |