Example sentences of "[vb past] her about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her about one or two little things . |
| 2 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 3 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 4 | When I told her about this |
| 5 | When I told her about this . |
| 6 | But God confronted her about that laugh — not because she laughed in God 's presence but because her laughter expressed a limiting view of God which was a denial of his power and an incitement to doubt . |
| 7 | The police probably knew everything ; it was only a matter of time now before they challenged her about that sample of nail polish . |
| 8 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) pressed her about personal ambitions and about what difference the review might have made to her : |
| 9 | Why had n't that damned astrologer warned her about this ? |
| 10 | Cautiously , I asked her about this . |
| 11 | Children of both sexes went to Sunday School ( one of my informants when I asked her about this said , " Oh yes , everyone went to Sunday School " ) . |
| 12 | Something worried her about that thought . |
| 13 | Now Sunday when I had her about that terrific barking , your father was the first to say , look she stopped it |
| 14 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |