Example sentences of "[verb] me about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ . |
| 33 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 34 | Little Liz told me about some of them . |
| 35 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 36 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 37 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 38 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 39 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 40 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 41 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ Nobody told me about this . |
| 43 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 44 | And erm then of course she told me about this so my mother went to see him . |
| 45 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 46 | ‘ That 's what frightens me about this campaign for nuclear disarmament . |
| 47 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 48 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 49 | I said that 's bo , that 's bothered me about that bleeding , I like him a lot . |
| 50 | ‘ Thank you for informing me about this interesting case , ’ Holmes said . |
| 51 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 52 | I was remembering what my father had told me about other conquering heroes who had tried to attack the great bear . |
| 53 | So — what is it you have n't told me about this man ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ You still have n't told me about this evidence you have against me , ’ Claudia said with an assumed air of indifference . |
| 55 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 56 | ‘ It 's like so many things you 've told me about these murders , robberies and the rape . |
| 57 | He said : ‘ They have told me about these steps they have taken to check this out and I 'm really delighted with their attitude . |
| 58 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 59 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 60 | Tell me about that again cos that was interesting . |