Example sentences of "[pers pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 2 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 3 | He will be able to tell them about the Labour party 's opposition to discounts , but he will not be able to tell them how much they would pay under the Labour party system , because the Labour party will not say . |
| 4 | I said earlier that we want to involve all aspects of the educational system , and for example we have already written to every local authority in the country , telling them about the general themes that we have identified as important , asking for their comments , for their suggestions of other matters that we should perhaps look into , and also asking for their help and involvement . |
| 5 | Perhaps one day an inspired current-affairs teacher will ask them about the long-term impact of the 1988 Education Act . |
| 6 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 7 | So you tell them about the thirty five percent you tell them about the banker 's order that will need signing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city . |
| 10 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
| 11 | So tell them about the new-look BROWNIE . |
| 12 | ICI Pharmaceuticals had also written to doctors telling them about the serious reactions and deaths . |
| 13 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 14 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 15 | Surveys will be made of recruitment to four manual occupations ( skilled and semi-skilled ) , using the methodology developed in the earlier study of non-manual occupations : selection of samples of specific job vacancies and interviewing the relevant recruitment decision makers , shortly after the vacancy has been filled , to question them about the whole process of recruitment from identification of a vacancy to selecting and appointing a new employee . |
| 16 | We were always having rows with them about the back garden , territorial disputes over 15-square-feet of packed mud covered in cat shit . |
| 17 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 18 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 19 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Hundred thousand pounds you do not have to submit an inland revenue account , therefore you do n't need to tell them about the three hundred thousand pounds and therefore you wo n't pay inheritance tax . |
| 22 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 23 | You see the thing is , I said , Gary said to me he said did you ask them about the over bed erm units and that and I said yeah , I said he wanted to , he , he said he could do the over bed unit for eighteen hundred plus the wardrobes for three eighty eight |
| 24 | Are you gon na tell them about the naked . |
| 25 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 26 | ‘ Tell me about the Highest Science . ’ |
| 27 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 28 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 29 | He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business . |
| 30 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |