Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Edouard lied to her about the reason for the attack . ’ |
| 2 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 3 | He talked to her about the play , the characters . |
| 4 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 5 | And we talked to him about the Intercity erm presentation requirements , and sent him away to think about it . |
| 6 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 7 | ‘ Two years ago Adai talked to me about the AOL . |
| 8 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |
| 9 | We complained to them about the target . |
| 10 | ‘ But instead of being delighted with the result he complained to us about the beer . |
| 11 | let's assume that Mr is right in the suggestion he put to you about the building on the left , that it 's a golf course and we can see for ourselves without any evidence there 's a man fishing on the lake at the bottom there , were you trying to suggest that as part of the deal at a lake would be provided or a golf club ? |
| 12 | ‘ John spoke to him about the inadvisability of running errands on racecourses for his warned-off father , and said that if Jason had any information , he should pass it on to him , John Millington . |
| 13 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 14 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | So if we start pulling them about which is cos I said to her about the hall and if I do n't scrub it all off we 're gon na have to erm gon na have to do the hall and er I said we 've got to try to put it on because the walls are so ooh bitty you know what I mean ? |
| 16 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 17 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 18 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 19 | I explained to them about the act I 've got . " |
| 20 | I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time . |
| 21 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 22 | I then explained to her about the attack on Toby . |