Example sentences of "[verb] him about [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |
| 2 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 3 | She told him about her easy acceptance that there was a repeated message from Barbara Coleman . |
| 4 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 5 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 6 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 7 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 8 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 9 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 10 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 11 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |
| 12 | He 's spending a week with me and is very interested in what I 've told him about you two . ’ |
| 13 | You could talk dirty , and tell him about your wildest fantasies … |
| 14 | Greg did not enlighten him about his real origins . |
| 15 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 |
| 19 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mention Rachel 's old address , and ask him about our nocturnal visitors . |
| 22 | Taxi driver Dermot Smith stabbed his wife Norma , 45 , four times after she taunted him about his sexual performance compared to her lover . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | During their courtship Diana had asked him about his previous girlfriends . |
| 25 | I , I mean the , the conversation started off and when , when you started to ask him about his existing or his previous pensionable employment as a carpenter he really had n't got a clue as to what it was all about . |
| 26 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 27 | If considered appropriate by the OR a public examination of the debtor will then be held and creditors can examine him about his financial affairs . |
| 28 | Audiences might like to quiz him about his favourite sporting moment . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't ask him about his new domestic set-up . |
| 30 | This was n't the moment to tell him about her earlier worries . |