Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , of course , and for pity 's sake stop reminding me about that . |
| 2 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 3 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank you for informing me about this interesting case , ’ Holmes said . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 6 | I 've written about this before and I expect I 'll write about it again , because I get more frustrated knitters questioning me about this than almost anything else . |
| 7 | We wrote to the AAIB asking them about this , but they never answered . |
| 8 | ‘ Stop asking me about that ! ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly , the other evening , he starts asking me about all the new sorts of mobile phone on the market — how they work , what their range is , how much they cost . |
| 10 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 11 | I believe Mr Wood 'll be asking you about that . |
| 12 | The reason I 'm asking you about that is erm I had er I had when I had my own business I was approached and we 've got an estate agent in the Hamilton called |
| 13 | I mentioned to Kirk that I had no intention of asking him about that part of the tour . |
| 14 | Oh , Ken was asking us about that . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp 's UK flackery is putting it about that Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer has sold more copies than Madonna 's weighty ‘ Sex ’ tome . |
| 16 | Microsoft Corp 's UK flackery is putting it about that Inside Windows NT by Helen Custer has sold more copies than Madonna 's weighty Sex tome . |
| 17 | I remember him telling me about that , that stone . |
| 18 | I remember you telling me about that , Cully . |
| 19 | Yeah and I do n't want to hear about , telling me about that bloody shop . |
| 20 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 21 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 22 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 23 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 24 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 25 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 26 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 27 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 28 | Consul John Dimmock said : ‘ Why are you ringing me about this ? |
| 29 | Consul John Dimmock said : ‘ Why are you ringing me about this ? |
| 30 | I remember Emma telling you about that . |