Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] about [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 5 | ‘ … and fairly lambasted him about young officers being allowed to make mistakes , learn from experience , and not be penalised etc etc . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 8 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 11 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) pressed her about personal ambitions and about what difference the review might have made to her : |
| 12 | Tell us about various reasons , not just study of value of the great of the greatest value there . |
| 13 | Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) . |
| 14 | Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions . |
| 15 | My father warned me about French men . |
| 16 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 17 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 18 | Ask him about contemporary approaches to musical education and he 'll quickly point out that , ‘ in the old days , a love of music was taught in the home . |
| 19 | She 's a total airhead : ask her about other characters and she 'll respond with , ‘ Yes I totally agree . ’ |
| 20 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 21 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 22 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 23 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 24 | Cox ( 1981 ) is interested in what women 's subjectivity may tell us about matriarchal modes of consciousness . |
| 25 | They can tell us about political slogans ( see pp. 37–8 ) , and give us important information about the people and places who made them . |
| 26 | Our staff in any branch will be more than happy to advise you about other ways in which we can help — you , your family , your business . |
| 27 | The RSPCA , Petwatch , or many of the other animal organisations that exist will be able to advise you about particular pets you may be interested in keeping . |
| 28 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 29 | Some pictures , Victorian engravings for instance , may be more useful for telling us about Victorian tastes , fashions , and expectations than for the scenes they portray . |
| 30 | The restaurant manager called all his waiters together to warn them about shady customers . |