Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] about his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loves everything about his new uniform . |
| 2 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) On the other hand , if the buyer says nothing about his future intentions this may merely serve to fuel rumours that a full bid is to be expected . |
| 4 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 5 | If , however , you feel that your husband 's taste for this material says something about his whole personality that you simply ca n't stand , then you always have the option of leaving and taking your daughters with you . |
| 6 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 7 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 8 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 9 | He told her about his old school . |
| 10 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 11 | He communicated nothing about his sporting ambitions to his mother with whom he lived in Rugby . |
| 12 | ‘ This self-important manikin simply will not do … a unique combination of vanity , greed , and incompetence … his capacity for deceiving himself about his own motives would seem to be boundless … underdeveloped arm and shoulder muscles … a chronic inability to formulate sublime thoughts … if the production models are not a vast improvement on this pitiful prototype , God help us all … ’ |
| 13 | After a Ploughman 's lunch with his wife Pandora and 4 children , he drove his Renault Espace van back up the lane to their luxury home in Hailey village , saying nothing about his financial situation . |
| 14 | In one , Ackroyd interviews himself about his own book , dispensing the sort of reflections an author normally puts in the preface : only Ackroyd , the teasing narrative juggler , would insert them on page 892 . |
| 15 | Greg did not enlighten him about his real origins . |
| 16 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 17 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 18 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 19 | ‘ I am constantly painting , scrubbing out and reworking areas of a picture and often marvellous unexpected results will emerge ’ explained Mick Rooney when Julian Halsby asked him about his working methods in this special interview for The Artist |
| 20 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 21 | In the music room , which has its walls lined with framed gold records and death threats from fundamentalist religious groups , Ice-T tells me about his future plans . |
| 22 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 23 | A company representative or agent will only tell you about his own firm 's plans and so his advice will be limited . |
| 24 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 25 | But ask him about his particular interests and proudest possessions , and his reply will be underpinned by a reverence and fondness undisturbed by the passage of years . |
| 26 | Taxi driver Dermot Smith stabbed his wife Norma , 45 , four times after she taunted him about his sexual performance compared to her lover . |
| 27 | It was Peters who chided him about his frail physique , which led to his regular attendance at August 's Gymnasium , which was in the basement of Apley Hall . |
| 28 | During their courtship Diana had asked him about his previous girlfriends . |
| 29 | But first , Wesley Snipes tells us about his co-starring role with Sean Connery in the film Rising Sun . |
| 30 | Tony tells us about his lone stay in the Westmann Islands off Iceland when I had to leave four days earlier than him . |