Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
| 3 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
| 4 | Bobby Lavender asked me about the target range . |
| 5 | If the official view in the Church cared nothing about the bishop in his function as apostolic teacher , anyone who was trained to teach had a duty to join the bishop 's bench if he were asked . |
| 6 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 7 | Mahmoud asked them about the girl . |
| 8 | Is that the day Jane asked them about the pension , how much there 'd |
| 9 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 10 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 11 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 12 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 13 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 14 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 15 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 16 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 17 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 18 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 19 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 20 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 21 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 22 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 23 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 24 | The one who interviewed me about the accident . ’ |
| 25 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 26 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 27 | Nobody told me about a bar graph . |
| 28 | A friend once told me about a Xingu ‘ Indian ’ he met in Brazil who went to Sao Paulo , a gigantic city , for the first time . |
| 29 | It was Mozaffar Alam , the Mughal historian , who told me about a book which became one of my favourite Delhi texts : the Muraqqa'-e-Dehli . |
| 30 | A few months later someone in my house told me about an article in Time Out about the Liberation Network . |