Example sentences of "[pers pn] about [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 2 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 3 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 4 | The game was spoiled by erratic and inconsistent refereeing by Kettering official Brian Hill , who felt it necessary to take aside both captains in the 21st minute and warn them about each team 's tactics . |
| 5 | I mean , tell them about natural selection and all that and do n't mention God . |
| 6 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 7 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |
| 8 | They 've had a very busy summer in the Admissions Office , but now the new academic year is underway , I 've invited them into the studio to ask them about this year 's admissions . |
| 9 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 10 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 11 | ‘ Whatever you do , do n't tell them about this lot . ’ |
| 12 | Just tell them about this product , what it can do , and I assure you of the results . |
| 13 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 14 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 15 | Now of what we 've been doing today with fractions was there any of it that you 're not quite sure of and you think , But could you just tell me about that bit again . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case . |
| 17 | Yeah , he only shoved ten pence in to tell me about that giro . |
| 18 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 19 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 20 | And also you said , you were going , you were taking the piss out of me about that thing I told you about something to do with Aaron erm |
| 21 | As one contracts manager put it , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that health needs nonsense , we 're just trying to keep the lid on . ’ |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me about that job . ’ |
| 24 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 25 | If they mentioned him , she would mutter , ‘ Do n't talk to me about that rat . ’ |
| 26 | Once or twice Paula teased me about nude swimming , and once she gave me a brief conducted tour of the gardens and the house . |
| 27 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 28 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 29 | But can you please advise me about one thing ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't even think of asking me about female membership , ’ barked the old Sgt-Major . |