Example sentences of "teach [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what else have they taught you about your father ? |
| 2 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ RADA taught me about drugs and I learned to cook and to drive at the RSC , ’ she laughs . |
| 4 | And when I daydream of its beauty I think , too , of the people I met on Koraloona , of Doc Reid , the eccentric , wayward medic who first taught me about the island ; Bill Robins , the captain of the Mantela when our ship was attacked , and who before that was to become my first real friend ; Jason Purvis , the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame ; Paula Reece , the beautiful American with cold , appraising eyes who so loved the island — and several of its free and happy inhabitants . |
| 5 | He taught me about voodoo , about the spirit of the rain and the spirit of the wind . |
| 6 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 7 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 8 | He spent half a day teaching me about the various policies and endowments , the way to figure cash surrender values , the matter of group insurance , and the various approaches to a prospect by the insurance salesman . |
| 9 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 10 | To have my hopeless kid brother teaching me about love ! |
| 11 | It was a party of sixth-formers with an instructor teaching them about the effects of weathering , the differing levels of hardness of limestone and how the two combine to produce waterfalls . |
| 12 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 13 | We can use the power of narrative to intrigue and draw children into the work at the same time as teaching them about narrative ; teaching them how to manipulate it for themselves . |
| 14 | A design school can , up to a point , teach you about layout . |
| 15 | He taught him about literature and opera and encouraged him to write . |
| 16 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
| 17 | During this time Mr Reynolds was taught breathing and leg exercises by the physiotherapist to prevent post-operative complications and the stoma care nurse , together with the ward nurses , taught him about having a colostomy and caring for it . |
| 18 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 19 | He says he taught her about wildlife , geography and Henry VIII and that she loved to listen . |
| 20 | Now I teach him about indie music and he teaches me about dance . |
| 21 | May be if they taught us about it at school boys would find it easier to talk to a girl about sex and things like that . ’ |
| 22 | Three weeks ago , we looked at God 's call to Jeremiah ; it taught us about God , and about the prophet who had been called to be God 's spokesman to His people Israel . |
| 23 | What can the Irish experience teach us about the relationship between the STV and PR ? |
| 24 | Eleven years on the Ratcliff Highway beat had taught him about Sids . |
| 25 | Because I had taught him about it you know , from coming from . |
| 26 | If all the Christians in your school started acting like Jesus , then people would n't be dependent upon an occasional Christian assembly to teach them about God . |
| 27 | I hope to initiate you into this important part of life … to teach you about such things . ’ |
| 28 | I have a lot to teach you about having fun , Char ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But my husband is going to teach me , ’ she said ‘ and I am going to teach him about ballet . ’ |
| 30 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |