Example sentences of "[verb] them about the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
| 2 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 3 | Mahmoud asked them about the girl . |
| 4 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 5 | Is that the day Jane asked them about the pension , how much there 'd |
| 6 | The BD8 Form is sent to the Social Services Department and a social worker will then visit the family to inform them about the services and allowances that may be available to them . |
| 7 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 8 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 9 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 10 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 11 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 12 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 13 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 14 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 15 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 16 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 17 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 18 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 19 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 20 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 21 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 22 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 23 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 24 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 25 | You told them about the tubes in my daughter 's bag … |
| 26 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 27 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 28 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 29 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 30 | ‘ And did you see them about the tomb ? ’ |