Example sentences of "[be] [verb] us about " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
2 | Well , next week , will be telling us about another one of these very controversial books , wo n't you ? |
3 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
4 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
5 | Not this dream you were telling us about , was it ? |
6 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
7 | He 's just been telling us about how this bloke 's condoms dropped out of his pocket . |
8 | For their side-effect is to confuse us about what is truly possible . |
9 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
10 | But er , I think the advice that erm , Mr is giving us about who we talk to and when to talk to them , how we get to get together and present a united face to government is a , is a good suggestion , and I 'd like to propose that er , we accept that . |
11 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
12 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
13 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
14 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
15 | Oh , Ken was asking us about that . |
16 | It was Mrs Iverson who was telling us about it after he mentioned it . ’ |
17 | ‘ Captain Moreau was telling us about her . |
18 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |
19 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
20 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
21 | And so the relevance of that to what Andrea was telling us about is what ? |
22 | Now , it 's easy to see , if we 're talking about the kind of dreams that Reed was telling us about , erm , that there 's a simple wish with these dreams and in the end you wake up and you go and gratify the wish in that case . |
23 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
24 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
25 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
26 | Cos , they was telling us about the weave for the white people and they were showing us a booklet and the |
27 | Yeah , she was telling us about it that girl , in wr in writing , what it , she was telling us it , about it being formed at a different venue , but it 's actually the Mary Wallis Theatre . |