Example sentences of "to [pers pn] about [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which means that we talk to them about a reasonable rate at which they can pay their rent . |
| 2 | Keane , who is being pursued by Liverpool , Manchester United , Arsenal and Blackburn , admitted : ‘ Forest have spoken to me about a long-term contract , but I do n't want to get to the point where I am arguing over details and money . |
| 3 | Rodney Lines , editor of the Newsletter , and Baron Wright taught me much that was new to me about a favourite poet . |
| 4 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 5 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 6 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 7 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 8 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 9 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 10 | My dear , do n't talk to me about an academic career for a woman . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd like to speak to you about a serious matter concerning one of your colleagues . |
| 12 | I have been asked to write to you about the restricted availability of the public toilets in Scorton . |
| 13 | Does he talk to you about the Medieval Circle ? ’ |
| 14 | Baldwin saw Chamberlain and said , ‘ Austen , when Sam has gone I shall want to talk to you about the Foreign Office . ’ ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Sulaiman put his case as to why we should fight Tucker first , and I put mine to him about a voluntary defence , and he replied that if that was Lennox 's wish , the WBC would do all in their power to grant it . ’ |
| 16 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 17 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 18 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 19 | What was it she had said to him about the missing family silver ? |
| 20 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 21 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 22 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe they want to talk to it about a burning truck , ’ said Masklin . |
| 25 | We also reviewed such evidence as has been submitted to us about the possible relation between the number of executions in particular years and the incidence of murder in succeeding years . |
| 26 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |
| 27 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |