Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 2 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 3 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ , but indeed it could be applied in many places . |
| 4 | That was why , when you first asked me about this , I turned the whole question round and said , ‘ You have to begin from the philosophical problem ’ . |
| 5 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 6 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 8 | They asked him how he was doing at school , made up questions to test him , twitted him about imaginary girlfriends , and there was always someone who wanted to know if he was going to be an RIC man like his dad when he grew up . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoever mentioned anything about that ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Who mentioned anything about brand-new Range Rovers ? ’ he enquired evenly . |
| 11 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 12 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 13 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 14 | Yeah I know I told them about that ! |
| 15 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 16 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 17 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 20 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 21 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 22 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |
| 23 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 24 | You told me about that , yeah . |
| 25 | Joanne told me about that you |
| 26 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 27 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 28 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 29 | Abraham Ling , a farm-worker from Blaxhall , told me about 1950 , and I recorded his remarks a little later : |
| 30 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |