Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] him about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 2 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 3 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 4 | Castle , 60 , said the Queen had asked him about his health after his year-long battle with lung cancer . |
| 5 | He wished the coroner had told him about this ! |
| 6 | He had formulated these principles on several occasions in the past , not least when monks had consulted him about accepting ecclesiastical promotion . |
| 7 | Greeting Coleman like an old friend , although they had met only once before , Hurley said Sasser had told him about Condor Television and its plans for covering events in Lebanon , and how about joining him for lunch ? |
| 8 | Michael Steen , owner of Wessex Home Care and a Dorset councillor , said more than 20 would-be providers had contacted him about licences . |
| 9 | Rubberneck , sometimes — Meg had told him about St Francis , his favourite saint — thought of them as birds . |
| 10 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 11 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 12 | Eleven years on the Ratcliff Highway beat had taught him about Sids . |
| 13 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 14 | Mr Turner , of South Humberside , said : ‘ I was so pleased when he called all his neighbours had told him about it . |
| 15 | Rosalba had questioned him about Tommaso , about his family , his prospects . |
| 16 | Endill presumed it was the box of questions the Bookman had told him about . |
| 17 | His doctor had warned him about his heart . |
| 18 | Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence . |
| 19 | During their courtship Diana had asked him about his previous girlfriends . |
| 20 | But with her husband constantly coming and going between this house and the other and looking so damned pleased with himself , pretending not to understand when John-William had tackled him about it looking odd , then what — without causing a mighty rumpus — could he do ? |
| 21 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 22 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 23 | Then Kraal remembered that when Creggan had asked him about where he came from all he had said was ‘ the South ’ and not really told him any more . |
| 24 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 25 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |