Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you want to see me about something ? ’ said Wilcox impatiently . |
| 4 | But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind . |
| 5 | ‘ You want to see me about something ? ’ |
| 6 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 7 | ‘ I have come to see you about Mrs Wallis Simpson , ’ he began . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've come to see you about your son , Aspirant . ’ |
| 9 | Okay er Phil I 'll need to see you about erm organizing the unit party . |
| 10 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 11 | I bought her some lunch and while Werewolf flirted , I tried to pump her about Pegasus Farm and the operation there . |
| 12 | Elaine has told me about her sister 's death . |
| 13 | Mavis has told me about it . |
| 14 | ‘ Everything Taheb has told me about you . |
| 15 | A person who is prepared to be named — I shall give the information if called to do so — has told me about the discrimination on training in a trust hospital in Leeds . |
| 16 | Ai'sha has told me about your proclivities ! ’ |
| 17 | It 's strange the way Chinese Whispers start about certain guitars ; by the time the umpteenth person has told you about the amazing instrument that they 've seen , you begin to be very sceptical about whether anything can be as outrageous as described … |
| 18 | One of my dealers has told you about these … shares . |
| 19 | ‘ I expect Claudia has told you about Berenice , ’ Roman said , sharply cutting across Dana 's self-satisfaction . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , my brother Stair — I am sure that Matey has told you about Stair — invited me out tonight to the stag party of one of his friends ; I used to know him slightly . |
| 21 | Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ? |
| 22 | ‘ No , she said not , and although I think that virtually everything she has told us about herself is a pack of lies I do n't think she 's lying about that . ’ |
| 23 | I shall carry on using the term regardless , and any hairy man who wants to challenge me about it is welcome to a wrestle . |
| 24 | If you want to challenge him about anything you had better have your facts right . |
| 25 | You 'll need to reassure her about the reliability of your products and the good service your shop offers . |
| 26 | By deserting its past , Labour has misled us about its future . |
| 27 | Suddenly , the other evening , he starts asking me about all the new sorts of mobile phone on the market — how they work , what their range is , how much they cost . |
| 28 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 29 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 30 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |