Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] 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 | I bought her some lunch and while Werewolf flirted , I tried to pump her about Pegasus Farm and the operation there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When Ludens tried to ask him about his ‘ thoughts ’ , he replied that he had ‘ difficulties ’ which they might discuss ‘ later on ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's the neighbour who phoned to tell us about Aunt Bertha , ’ Lucy whispered to Silas . |
| 8 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 9 | She wished she had listened when Doc Threadneedle tried to tell her about her brain . |
| 10 | He had no news of John , but once we had overcome an initial awkwardness , he tried to tell us about his experience . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 15 | He 'd used it about a lot of his friends behind their backs , particularly if they were homosexuals or had other sexual tastes he considered unusual . |
| 16 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 17 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 18 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 19 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |
| 20 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 21 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 22 | What had prompted the feeling had been the story he 'd told her about his grandfather and his link with G.W. Fashions . |
| 23 | He 'd told her about Valldemosa too , which was why she was taking this route to the north of the island . |
| 24 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 25 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 26 | I did n't want you to find the letter before I 'd told you about it . ’ |
| 27 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 28 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 29 | Francis came to tell us about arrangements for the funeral and he brought with him one of my father 's pictures which had been taken to the shop for framing . |
| 30 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |