Example sentences of "[verb] me about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that the hon. Gentleman 's colleague , the hon. Member for Antrim , North ( Rev. Ian Paisley ) came to see me about one of the cases to which he refers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 5 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 6 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 7 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 8 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 9 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , of course , and for pity 's sake stop reminding me about that . |
| 12 | Clearly that 's what worries me about this Government 's implementation of the Children Act . |
| 13 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 14 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 15 | What used to annoy me about that shop was that , that the fact that you know people used to buy the things on the never- never |
| 16 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 17 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 18 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 19 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 20 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |
| 21 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 22 | You told me about that , yeah . |
| 23 | Joanne told me about that you |
| 24 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 25 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 26 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 27 | Abraham Ling , a farm-worker from Blaxhall , told me about 1950 , and I recorded his remarks a little later : |
| 28 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 29 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 30 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |