Example sentences of "[verb] me about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 3 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 4 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 6 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 7 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 8 | I was remembering what my father had told me about other conquering heroes who had tried to attack the great bear . |
| 9 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 10 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 11 | My father warned me about French men . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't even think of asking me about female membership , ’ barked the old Sgt-Major . |
| 13 | ‘ Because everybody asks me about American central heating . |
| 14 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 15 | Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? |
| 16 | Took me , took me about bloody two days to do your last one |
| 17 | ’ The thing that bothers me about English training is that although acting is as demanding as ballet or opera , dancers and singers work out every day . |
| 18 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 19 | Once or twice Paula teased me about nude swimming , and once she gave me a brief conducted tour of the gardens and the house . |
| 20 | My memory fails me about specific details but was there not a death here eight months ago ? ’ |
| 21 | There are a number of issues which still concern me about continuing education for students with disabilities , just as they did when I entered college life — for example , the fear and ignorance that often surrounds this seemingly homogeneous condition known as ‘ disability ’ , and the unmitigated prejudice and stereotyping of people who do not ‘ fit ’ into a mythical category commonly known as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 22 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |