Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] him about " in BNC.
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| 1 | His colleagues , relieved to find something to talk about , began questioning him about the case . |
| 2 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 3 | She could n't resist asking him about his date . |
| 4 | In 1965 , his friend Roman Polanski started telling him about a beautiful French girl that ‘ I would be mad for . |
| 5 | Hanns must have replied teasing him about them , because he now wrote indignantly , ‘ My parts are definitely not all ‘ A Man ’ — one ( Pierrot ) is a lead , the fisherman is a big part and so is the Russian ; the other ( the owl , not the grasshopper ) is not so good . ’ |
| 6 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 7 | When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle ! |
| 8 | For a moment , Kelly considered telling him about the dance , but then she thought better of it . |