Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 2 | One journalist asked him about " The Love Life of J. Alfred Prufrock " and he replied gravely , " I 'm afraid that J. Alfred Prufrock did n't have much of a love life " . |
| 3 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 4 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 5 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 6 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 7 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 8 | Relieved that he had apparently not betrayed himself and yet wishing that she had not moved away from him , David told her about the history of the old Jewish quarter of Venice . |
| 9 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ My agent told you about the remuneration ? ’ |
| 11 | Grimma told him about events in the quarry — the fight with the humans , and the stealing of Jekub the earth-mover to escape . |
| 12 | ‘ Edward told you about that ? ’ |
| 13 | He told various stories when journalists interviewed him about the book and pryed into his background . |
| 14 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 15 | Marie told him about Mr Bishop being drunk and getting himself drowned ; about Gazzer finding Madge wandering along the prom and having to take her to Mr Bishop 's brother because she was n't responsible for herself . |
| 16 | There was an excellent example some weeks ago , when M told us about nuclear-waste dumping at sea — how much , what it contained , where it was ditched , how dangerous it might be , what was known and what was n't — all explained quickly , painlessly , economically . |
| 17 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 18 | ‘ Nevil told us about your family . |
| 19 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm glad Ronnie told me about her ; I wo n't feel so stupid next time ; the whole thing had a quiet dignity about it and I felt good . |
| 21 | While he fiddled with his samovar , Dr Jaffery told me about his work . |
| 22 | People do n't think the Editor would have the nerve to challenge him about it . |
| 23 | What had Corbett told him about her ? they asked . |
| 24 | ‘ Has n't Mr Trelawney told you about the pirates ? |
| 25 | Nor does the Kennel Club tell me about its achievements . |
| 26 | There was no intention to misinform you about the situation . ’ |
| 27 | But others criticised her for interrupting too often and looking unprofessional as she slumped in her seat asking him about his O level exam achievements . |
| 28 | You can tell that Arthur Parker , head of IBM UK 's Enterprise Systems division , is getting heartily sick of journalists asking him about downsizing : ‘ If I only read the papers and did n't know my subject I would believe that the vast majority of large corporations are desperate to move applications off the mainframe — and that is rubbish ’ he says . |
| 29 | We wrote to the AAIB asking them about this , but they never answered . |
| 30 | I feel that he is really saying not that he sees the cleverness and the artistic quality of the painting or the message in the paintings as might first be assumed , but that he understands what the church is doing , instead of helping the poor , it was showing the pictures to educate them about God . |