Example sentences of "[noun prp] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not speak to Harold Wilson or to Lady Falkender about the matter , since I was sure that strenuous efforts would be made to prevent disclosure , but I was equally sure from Denis Hamilton 's attitude that this would not succeed and it was therefore better not to try . |
| 2 | In a vote of confidence on 28 March about the government 's handling of the industrial crisis , the Liberals , the Scottish Nationalists , and most of the Ulster MPs voted with the Conservatives , while the government enlisted the support only of the 3 Welsh Nationalists , 2 Scottish Labour , and 2 Ulstermen . |
| 3 | Sir , Your report on 26th March about the appointment of new sales directors at Random House and Orion stated that Random House had announced ‘ the appointment of Mike Broderick to the new position of group UK sales director … ( and ) By a happy symmetry , Orion has now been joined by Dallas Manderson , who has left his post as group trade sales director at Random House ’ . |
| 4 | Finally Buckingham MP George Walden is writing to Agriculture Minister John Gummer about the land war crisis , to tell him what local land farmers think about it . |
| 5 | In 1710 complaints were made in Norfolk about the cost of the new ‘ whirligigs ’ ; and soon , travellers to the eastern counties were noting the number of windmills dotting the landscape . |
| 6 | However , there was expected to be friction between Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Sir Hugh Annesley about the warning of loyalist attacks in the Republic . |
| 7 | The Senegalese Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Mamadou Mansour Seck , had gone to see Taylor about the incident , accompanied by Maj.-Gen. |
| 8 | She hoped to tell Sarah about the caelidhe on Monday , but a message came that she was too ill for work . |
| 9 | Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles . |
| 10 | I 've accepted that if I open in a play in Lourdes about the life and times of Mother Teresa , the press will write : ‘ Yiddishe Momma in NUN-sense ’ . |
| 11 | INTERVIEW / Industrious relations : Novelist David Lodge talks to Mark Lawson about the television version of his latest book Nice Work |
| 12 | Other developments included the Foreign Ministry calling for prompt talks with Moscow about the withdrawal of the 75,000 Red Army troops stationed in the country and signs that the diplomatic corps was about to be purged . |
| 13 | Not giving her a chance to finish , fitzAlan 's good arm shot out and snagged Isabel about the waist . |
| 14 | Stone shook his head grimly , reminding Doyle about the cat the day before . |
| 15 | ‘ We want to talk to Mr Stewart about the way the 67 men who were made redundant were treated by the company . |
| 16 | ‘ We want to talk to Mr Stewart about the way the 67 men who were made redundant were treated by the company . |
| 17 | Detectives waiting to question Pringle about the siege and shooting of two other people have mounted a constant vigil at his hospital bedside . |
| 18 | Ethel 's brother , David Greenglass , claimed he had passed on to Julius some sketches and notes from Los Alamos about the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki . |
| 19 | Although there is some ill-feeling in Whitehall about the way the environment team leaked some ( nutty ) ideas , Mr Heseltine 's behaviour in committee is praised by other ministers . |
| 20 | Peter Curd , a spokesman for NIREX said this week that ‘ preliminary approaches ’ had been made to ICI about the mine , which is some 300 m deep . |
| 21 | In this extract from ‘ The Creatures Time Forgot : Photography and Disability Imagery ’ , its author DAVID HEVEY , talks to Jo Spence about the battle to be heard |
| 22 | David agreed to talk both to Sheilah about the role of Church of Scotland Education Committees in this regard , and to Celia Matthews about the Scottish Episcopal Church 's Diocesan Education Committees . |
| 23 | He also remembered that he 'd said he 'd ring Frances about the possibility of going down to Miles and Juliet 's on the Sunday , but decided to do that the next morning . |
| 24 | She told Pascoe about the house and the woman she had seen there ; she told a little of her meeting with Luke ; the rest she kept for herself . |
| 25 | It is important to check whether the dead person left any instructions with the Will about the funeral , or wished the body to be given for medical research ( see Section 7 ) , or organs to be donated for transplantation ( see Section 8 ) . |
| 26 | The results reflected concern in West Germany about the pace and particularly the financial consequences of the German unification process , although Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl made it clear on May 14 that he intended to stick to the timetable of holding all-German elections in December 1990 or January 1991 despite the CDU 's " bitter " defeat in Lower Saxony . |
| 27 | In this sense it is significant that , unlike in France and Britain , no politician of note has given voice to the growing disquiet in Germany about the move in Europe towards a Federalist state . |
| 28 | ‘ I told Warton about the descent , then the ditching ahead of us , which seemed to be a perfectly controlled set-down ’ . |
| 29 | He began by talking to Mr and Mrs Singh about the school . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |