Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about future numbers . |
| 3 | I mean you asked me about formal education , and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 4 | I mean you asked me about formal education and immediately we 're talking about nursery education . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow also asked me about competitive tendering and the tendering process . |
| 6 | In addition they try to contact homeworkers and provide Factpacks in several languages to inform them about local authority facilities which already exist — like childcare and contact centres , and telling them about the health and safety risks of homework and how these can be reduced . |
| 7 | The man who persistently questions you about after-sales service . |
| 8 | They asked him how he was doing at school , made up questions to test him , twitted him about imaginary girlfriends , and there was always someone who wanted to know if he was going to be an RIC man like his dad when he grew up . |
| 9 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 10 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 11 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 12 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 13 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 14 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 15 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
| 16 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 17 | ‘ … and fairly lambasted him about young officers being allowed to make mistakes , learn from experience , and not be penalised etc etc . ’ |
| 18 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 19 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 20 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 21 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 22 | He stabled the horses near those allotments where I 've just told you about ny father had allotments . |
| 23 | He was out canvassing when he encountered an old lady who was ready to vote for him as long as he could convince her about Labour Party policy on cats . |
| 24 | Our thesis is that our traditional models and ways of thinking do not allow us to understand complex processes and — which is worse : often mislead us about appropriate responses . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to infiltrate the skinheads and tell them about black people . |
| 26 | I mean , tell them about natural selection and all that and do n't mention God . |
| 27 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 28 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 29 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
| 30 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) pressed her about personal ambitions and about what difference the review might have made to her : |