Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] about [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 2 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 3 | I mentioned to Kirk that I had no intention of asking him about that part of the tour . |
| 4 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 5 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 7 | But Fenella seemed to have caught the Gruagach 's interest fairly and squarely ; Caspar , only partly listening , heard her telling them about another life , another world , where people had fled in panic from the Feargach Grian many centuries earlier and how the Feargach Grian had , on that occasion , appeared in one of its truly terrible aspects . |
| 8 | Oh yeah I I was telling you about that song was n't I . |
| 9 | I were telling you about that sugar place , we 're doing it again . |
| 10 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 11 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 12 | They keep telling us about this poll tax , they 've got to cut the staff and then they decide that they 're going to give this man this money . |
| 13 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |