Example sentences of "[to-vb] about her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted him to know about her life , about her real self . |
| 2 | BBC bosses wanted to know about her love life … and if she had ever posed for sexy photos . |
| 3 | For nobody wanted to know about her bathtime invention . |
| 4 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 5 | At this stage she started to write about her time in Bristol as very faintly disguised autobiography . |
| 6 | This causes a great deal of anxiety for the parents of a girl child , for they start immediately after her puberty to worry about her marriage if she is not already married . |
| 7 | There was no need to worry about her lack of knowledge : public relations trained you to write authoritatively about everything from tractors to lingerie . |
| 8 | The tug crew noticed the ship was lying low in the water and began to worry about her sinking . |
| 9 | Ellen offered me a poisonous smile , but I had no time to worry about her distaste for the militaristic para-medic . |
| 10 | What crass hypocrisy , pretending to worry about her career when she had been instrumental in its destruction ! |
| 11 | Ruby did not want to , she wanted to talk about her technique even though it had let her down . |
| 12 | ‘ Psychologically , it has left a big scar and she is still reluctant to talk about her ordeal . |
| 13 | Perhaps she would , really , have liked to talk about her daughter . |
| 14 | The day she had come to his house to talk about her daughter 's problem he had felt much closer to her . |
| 15 | She would not be drawn out to talk about her work , to which she almost never referred without the adjective ‘ menial ’ . |
| 16 | He had known Elise only slightly and seemed to sense that Merrill did n't want to talk about her cousin , and he confined his conversation to holidays , recent travel and his work . |
| 17 | The trouble started when she began to talk about her will . |
| 18 | In the time that followed , Auntie was very careful indeed not to talk about her sight , long sight , or foresight . |
| 19 | It is a little time when we can talk together , and I encourage her to talk about her father . |
| 20 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 21 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
| 22 | ‘ That must have been interesting , ’ said Julia and then , because it was obvious that Felicity did not want to talk about her war experiences , began to swap anodyne reminiscences with her . |
| 23 | The mother resolutely refused to talk about her diagnosis , prognosis , or future in any way . |
| 24 | Luce felt a strong disinclination to talk about her engagement , and answered offhandedly , ‘ No , not very long . ’ |
| 25 | He began to wonder about her life outside the hospital . |
| 26 | Jennifer looked up with sudden interest and Rachel knew she liked to hear about her work . |
| 27 | He wanted to extend their intimacy , to hear about her childhood , her family . |
| 28 | On her Christmas card I told her I was anxious to hear about her trip but there was no reply . |
| 29 | And I understood from the hospital where Mrs Ross has been a patient that before she was admitted enquiries were made and you wrote back — supposedly in your wife 's absence — saying you had no idea where your wife was and you did not want to hear about her mother or to see her . ’ |
| 30 | Friends always had to be left behind and , in any case , she did n't want to hear about her father 's life in France . |