Example sentences of "[vb past] her about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly .
2 But God confronted her about that laugh — not because she laughed in God 's presence but because her laughter expressed a limiting view of God which was a denial of his power and an incitement to doubt .
3 The police probably knew everything ; it was only a matter of time now before they challenged her about that sample of nail polish .
4 Deputy Head ( Staff ) pressed her about personal ambitions and about what difference the review might have made to her :
5 Something worried her about that thought .
6 From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ .
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