Example sentences of "[be] [verb] them about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 2 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 3 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 4 | Cricklewoods I think were selling them about sort of fifteen quid each . |
| 5 | On the bus home that day , she wondered what her parents would have to say , if she were to ask them about it . |
| 6 | With a mountain upbringing , Myles Horton developed the idea of Highlander in an attempt to come to grips with the problems which were really facing the mountain people of Appalachia and the rural south , the day to day problems which these communities perceived as being obstacles to them , rather than necessarily those which planners , developers and politicians were telling them about . |
| 7 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 8 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 9 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Your task is to tell them about your life and what makes you the person you are today . |
| 12 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 14 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |