Example sentences of "[verb] he about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 2 | There was a Captain Dennis Babbage whose hobby was Bradshaw , the famous railway time-table ; and anyone who had a journey to make was welcome to consult him about the easiest ( or most interestingly complicated ) route to take . |
| 3 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 4 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 5 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 6 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 7 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 8 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 9 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 10 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 11 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 12 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 13 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 14 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 15 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 16 | I saw Mr Callaghan come down the steps of his plane , stop at the foot and greet the throng of journalists waiting on the tarmac to question him about the current discontents . |
| 17 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |
| 18 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 19 | When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle ! |
| 20 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 21 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 22 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 23 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 24 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 25 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 26 | He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election . |
| 27 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
| 28 | With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers . |
| 29 | When not doing his rare caddying stints , Tip can be found enjoying a beer and an occasional rum-chaser at the Dunvegan Hotel , overlooking those revered links that are a constant reminder of his glory years , and a spur to his memory when the young caddies ask him about the good old days . |
| 30 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |