Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 2 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 4 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 5 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 6 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , of course , and for pity 's sake stop reminding me about that . |
| 8 | Clearly that 's what worries me about this Government 's implementation of the Children Act . |
| 9 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 10 | I shall bloody quiz her about that ! |
| 11 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 12 | What used to annoy me about that shop was that , that the fact that you know people used to buy the things on the never- never |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah I know I told them about that ! |
| 15 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 16 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 17 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 18 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 19 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 20 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 21 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 22 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |
| 23 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 24 | You told me about that , yeah . |
| 25 | Joanne told me about that you |
| 26 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 27 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 28 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 29 | The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |