Example sentences of "[pers pn] about [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't you tell them about that ghastly couple — Grimwood and Steve ? |
| 2 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 3 | And of committee and of sorry a special erm meeting between the four officers that produced minutes to all part and this was one of them about this particular issue , which just just is just to record that Westbourne 's Parish Council 's er views were taken into account . |
| 4 | Tell them about these two . |
| 5 | He 's talked to me about all that stuff too . |
| 6 | He was quite frank with me about all this . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's only one thing that puzzles me about all this . ’ |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 10 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah and I do n't want to hear about , telling me about that bloody shop . |
| 12 | Now you just have to tell me about that that peedie er shop again Vera . |
| 13 | I said that 's bo , that 's bothered me about that bleeding , I like him a lot . |
| 14 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 15 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 16 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 17 | You never wanted to discuss your work , you would n't talk to me about any personal problems ; sometimes I used to think that there was n't one single damned thing we could talk about . ’ |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases , I shall respond in detail . |
| 19 | And she sent me to a mother and toddler group , I mean , she did n't tell me about any self-help groups , it 's mother and toddler , she just said take you and the baby and go to mother and toddler and that 'll be it . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell me about these risk-taking hobbies of mine . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell me about those three-storey houses that stand at each corner of the crossroads . |
| 25 | I thought you might be a Windmill girl … come to blackmail me about some drunken indiscretion of mine . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 27 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 28 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 29 | ‘ Tell me about this young man , Hassan . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Tell me about this new girl , ’ Emma said . |