Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 2 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 3 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 4 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 5 | Cautiously , I asked her about this . |
| 6 | Children of both sexes went to Sunday School ( one of my informants when I asked her about this said , " Oh yes , everyone went to Sunday School " ) . |
| 7 | I told her about one or two little things . |
| 8 | When I told her about this |
| 9 | When I told her about this . |
| 10 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 11 | Yeah I know I told them about that ! |
| 12 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 13 | You said , I told him about that . |
| 14 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
| 15 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I told you about that , huh ? |
| 18 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 19 | I told you about that before . |
| 20 | Oh Mum I told you about that . |
| 21 | I told you about that ! |
| 22 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 23 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 24 | You know , and I told you about that I 'm having my er done . |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 26 | I di and then of course , the previous erm , er Monday I erm , I was at oh , the seventieth birthday party , but I think I told you about that did n't I ? |
| 27 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 28 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 29 | Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group . |
| 30 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |