Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 3 | He pretended to know nothing about what happened between us . ’ |
| 4 | I bought her some lunch and while Werewolf flirted , I tried to pump her about Pegasus Farm and the operation there . |
| 5 | And we tried to do something about the problem of alcoholism and prostitution in the area by getting the bars and brothels registered with the local government . |
| 6 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He tried to say something about being very happy ; his voice very strained . |
| 9 | When Ludens tried to ask him about his ‘ thoughts ’ , he replied that he had ‘ difficulties ’ which they might discuss ‘ later on ’ . |
| 10 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's the neighbour who phoned to tell us about Aunt Bertha , ’ Lucy whispered to Silas . |
| 12 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 13 | She wished she had listened when Doc Threadneedle tried to tell her about her brain . |
| 14 | He had no news of John , but once we had overcome an initial awkwardness , he tried to tell us about his experience . |
| 15 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 16 | I dare n't have done if I had n't er oh oh I know once my my doctor came to see me about something and there was erm a lot of people used to use er some pills oh what were they called , little round pills , when at the monthly periods they used to use them , oh Doctor Johnson 's , Doctor somebody 's pills , now they would have the effect of er your period you would see more than you usually did . |
| 17 | I think that the hon. Gentleman 's colleague , the hon. Member for Antrim , North ( Rev. Ian Paisley ) came to see me about one of the cases to which he refers . |
| 18 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 19 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 20 | In a car outside these youngsters seemed to know something about the vandalism . |
| 21 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
| 22 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
| 23 | Elaine did n't register my birth before she gave me to Mum , and no one seemed to know anything about her , or where she was from . |
| 24 | She 'd said something about being careful with her blood sugar ; nothing as serious as diabetes , but something she had to watch . |
| 25 | April might have forbidden Wee Charlie to have any more lemonade , but she 'd said nothing about sweets . |
| 26 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |
| 27 | Who 'd said anything about marriage ? |
| 28 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |
| 29 | I did n't think we 'd done anything about that this year . |
| 30 | He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult . |