Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 6 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 8 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 9 | ‘ I told her about the suffering of battered women and of the desperate need to make sure they have somewhere to run , ’ said Mrs Horley . |
| 10 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 11 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 12 | I told her about the meeting . |
| 13 | I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza . |
| 14 | at er , I , I do n't remember anything , anything at all , but she said , I told her about the baby , she did n't know about that |
| 15 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 16 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 20 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 21 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 22 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 23 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 24 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 26 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 27 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 28 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 29 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 30 | I know sa so if you get mine what , I told you about the blind as they go , do n't pull them up when they 're wet . |