Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] about this " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 2 | Cautiously , I asked her about this . |
| 3 | 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 " ) . |
| 4 | When I told her about this |
| 5 | When I told her about this . |
| 6 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 7 | Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group . |
| 8 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 9 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 10 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 11 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody told me about this . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 15 | we have actually had a sort of barrel expert er who told us about this . |
| 16 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 17 | And erm then of course she told me about this so my mother went to see him . |
| 18 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 19 | You tell me about this plant , and I 'll kill you quick — bullet in the head , no more pain . ’ |
| 20 | That 's why you heard me about this morning ! |
| 21 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
| 22 | ‘ But … why did n't you tell me about this before ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me about this before ? ’ |
| 24 | " Now why do n't you tell us about this Irish Republican Army , " Tom Rooney said to the gunman . |
| 25 | Consul John Dimmock said : ‘ Why are you ringing me about this ? |
| 26 | Consul John Dimmock said : ‘ Why are you ringing me about this ? |
| 27 | Could you advise me about this . |
| 28 | For example , if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying , his partner can ring him up and say : " My colleague 's at an important meeting , but he asked me to call you about this stock . |
| 29 | ‘ Let me tell you about this guy , ’ said Harvey pointing a thumb at me . |
| 30 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |