Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As Craig slowly recovers one thing that really upsets his parents is that no-one from the council has bothered to see them about the accident or to ask how craig is : |
2 | Right , as soon as we 've done this then we 'll have to go and have a , you can have a bath and mummy can have a shower because I 've got a lady coming to see me about a job . |
3 | Oh , and Frank wanted to see me about the car . |
4 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
5 | Will he reassure me about the future of those patients who , until now , have been in the rheumatology unit of Ruchill hospital ? |
6 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
7 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
8 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
9 | Bobby Lavender asked me about the target range . |
10 | If the official view in the Church cared nothing about the bishop in his function as apostolic teacher , anyone who was trained to teach had a duty to join the bishop 's bench if he were asked . |
11 | ‘ What angers me about the system goes beyond the unreliability of ‘ proof ’ … it 's that the way criminals are dealt with has nothing to do with rehabilitation and readjusting people who 've stepped outside society 's norms . |
12 | ‘ That 's what bugs me about the experience . |
13 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
14 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
15 | Mahmoud asked them about the girl . |
16 | Is that the day Jane asked them about the pension , how much there 'd |
17 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
18 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
19 | Till receipts say nothing about a business ’ overheads . |
20 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
21 | What worries me about a desire for achievement which finds its vindication solely in number is the externality of it all . |
22 | Possibly because the French Federation may actually know nothing about the game . |
23 | The Director seemed to know nothing about the College . |
24 | Unlike Karelius and Fräulein Müller , the Frenchman seemed to know nothing about the opera or even the rudiments of music . |
25 | The members of his party appeared to know nothing about the opposition of the hierarchy to the earlier Bill , and Dr Browne only found out in October/November 1950 . |
26 | Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ . |
27 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
28 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
29 | I 'm back with another Fox Report on Monday , but if you want to know everything about the sport and leisure that 's happening in the area , do make sure you listen to Fox leisure with Steve Priestley and Phil Angell tomorrow at two , and Steve Priestly is here , in person , after the news at seven with the Red Fox . |
30 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |