Example sentences of "[vb past] he about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In J.F. Campbell 's Popular Tales of the West Highlands ( XXVIII ) there is the story of The Smith and The Fairies which the Rev. Thomas Pattieson told him about a MacEachern at Crosbrig . |
| 2 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
| 3 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 4 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 5 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 6 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 7 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 8 | Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians . |
| 9 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 10 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 12 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 13 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 14 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 15 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 16 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 17 | Billy 's eyes shone as Yanto told him about the bike . |
| 18 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 19 | Kelly told him about the call to the weighing room , her father 's letter , the death of Broom-Parker . |
| 20 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 21 | She told him about the anti-blood-sports campaigner . |
| 22 | She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head . |
| 23 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 24 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 25 | The old man listened as the general told him about the incident at Pulkovo Airport . |
| 26 | I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity . |
| 27 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 28 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 29 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 30 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |