Example sentences of "[verb] he about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 2 | I 've quizzed him about the noise , but he says he 's never heard it — well of course he has n't , he 's fast asleep ! |
| 3 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 4 | There was a Captain Dennis Babbage whose hobby was Bradshaw , the famous railway time-table ; and anyone who had a journey to make was welcome to consult him about the easiest ( or most interestingly complicated ) route to take . |
| 5 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 6 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 7 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 8 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 10 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 11 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 12 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 14 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 15 | Billy 's eyes shone as Yanto told him about the bike . |
| 16 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 17 | Kelly told him about the call to the weighing room , her father 's letter , the death of Broom-Parker . |
| 18 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 19 | She told him about the anti-blood-sports campaigner . |
| 20 | She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head . |
| 21 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 22 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 23 | The old man listened as the general told him about the incident at Pulkovo Airport . |
| 24 | I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity . |
| 25 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 26 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 27 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 28 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 29 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 30 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |