Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what irritates me about them more than anything is the artificial device that actors somehow compete one with the other for the prize . |
| 2 | And the protesters ' anger was heightened when Environment Secretary Michael Howard refused to see them about their fears . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you want to see me about something ? ’ said Wilcox impatiently . |
| 4 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 5 | ‘ You want to see me about something ? ’ |
| 6 | I know , I say that , and the , the only thing is I was upset over the Leah Manning , being taken off the ambulance you see and whether I will get back I 'm hoping I will because erm he said he will let me know before Christmas so I think he will , he came to Leah Manning to visit me any rights to see me about it , so it was good of him really |
| 7 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 8 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 9 | I wrote : ‘ These are the questions that really bug me about you . |
| 10 | One of the other guys asked me about her . |
| 11 | Only I 've , somebody asked me about one with erm S C B , B grade one or whatever |
| 12 | He even asked me about them up at the manor . |
| 13 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 14 | She asked me about him , and I must have said it was a boy , and he was resting . |
| 15 | She asked me about her sisters . |
| 16 | It was er international company sommat like that Ching and er they asked me about it and I said I 'll see what I can do . |
| 17 | ‘ You were the one who asked me about it , ’ she returned , as angry and impatient as he was . |
| 18 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 19 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 20 | ‘ I was at a disco on crutches when Nigel asked me about my plans — and casually said I could ride for him whenever I was free . |
| 21 | He then asked me about my sexual habits , to which I replied that I was heterosexual . |
| 22 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 23 | Having by then disposed of public affairs , he asked me about my work at the LCC school . |
| 24 | She asked me about my love-life ! |
| 25 | She asked me about your novel . |
| 26 | Oh Shrimpy made me laugh me about it cracks me up like ! |
| 27 | Sister Margaret is always nagging me about my earrings and telling me to take them off , but I 'm not going to . |
| 28 | Plus , my friends would only end up nagging me about my weight and that was the last thing that I wanted . ’ |
| 29 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 30 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |