Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 3 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 4 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 5 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 6 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 7 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 8 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 9 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 10 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 11 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 12 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 13 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
| 14 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 15 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 16 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 17 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 18 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 19 | He said something about an insolent pup . ’ |