Example sentences of "[pers pn] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 2 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 3 | He will be able to tell them about the Labour party 's opposition to discounts , but he will not be able to tell them how much they would pay under the Labour party system , because the Labour party will not say . |
| 4 | Perhaps one day an inspired current-affairs teacher will ask them about the long-term impact of the 1988 Education Act . |
| 5 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 6 | So tell them about the new-look BROWNIE . |
| 7 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 8 | Surveys will be made of recruitment to four manual occupations ( skilled and semi-skilled ) , using the methodology developed in the earlier study of non-manual occupations : selection of samples of specific job vacancies and interviewing the relevant recruitment decision makers , shortly after the vacancy has been filled , to question them about the whole process of recruitment from identification of a vacancy to selecting and appointing a new employee . |
| 9 | We were always having rows with them about the back garden , territorial disputes over 15-square-feet of packed mud covered in cat shit . |
| 10 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 11 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 12 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 13 | You see the thing is , I said , Gary said to me he said did you ask them about the over bed erm units and that and I said yeah , I said he wanted to , he , he said he could do the over bed unit for eighteen hundred plus the wardrobes for three eighty eight |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me about the Highest Science . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 16 | He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business . |
| 17 | Tell me about the one day schools for school teachers that you run . |
| 18 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 19 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 20 | I 'd like you to tell me about the first time you were really aware of these symptoms , then the worst episode you can remember , and then the last … . |
| 21 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 22 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 23 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 24 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 25 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 26 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 27 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 28 | Can anyone one tell me about the solar system , or anything they know about it . |
| 29 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 30 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |