Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 4 | ‘ My captain phoned you about the two people from OM-45 . |
| 5 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 6 | So , the research worker should know something about the main ways to obtain information from the library . |
| 7 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 8 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 9 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 10 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 11 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 12 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 13 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 14 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 15 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 16 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 17 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 18 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 19 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 20 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 21 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 22 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 23 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 24 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 25 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 26 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 27 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 28 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 29 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 30 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |