Example sentences of "[vb past] he about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 2 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 3 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 4 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 5 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 6 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 7 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 8 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 9 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 10 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 11 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 12 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 13 | A friend told him about an ex-demonstration model available at a heavily discounted price . |
| 14 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 15 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 16 | Harry Carpenter came up to interview him and asked him about the last putt . |
| 17 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 18 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |