Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 2 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 3 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 4 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 5 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 6 | You know , and I told you about that I 'm having my er done . |
| 7 | She does n't know all the Jewish laws , and she knows nothing about this when she comes to Bethlehem . |
| 8 | On a visit to Mrs Chamberlin she explained that she did not like to leave her aunt and would from then on come only once a week , and she put it about that for the moment , neither she nor her aunt would be at home on Wednesday afternoons . |
| 9 | And they said something about this woman a neighbour said oh where the hell 's Jimmy or something today ? |
| 10 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 11 | He was particularly skilled with animals and he knew something about veterinary work which came in very handy when any of the animals took ill , also during lambing and calving time . |
| 12 | He had a thick stick of some kind — quite short-in his hand , and he said something about this being a holdup , or a stick-up or some term I really did n't understand . |