Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill . |
| 2 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 3 | I 've quizzed him about the noise , but he says he 's never heard it — well of course he has n't , he 's fast asleep ! |
| 4 | We talked about things going wrong , one of the things that 's disturbed me about the tone of the discussion has been the emphasis of rights . |
| 5 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 6 | And , in view of what you 've told me about the computer and knocking off all those agents , this whole thing is a lot bigger than just guarding Trimmler . |
| 7 | A person who is prepared to be named — I shall give the information if called to do so — has told me about the discrimination on training in a trust hospital in Leeds . |
| 8 | They have told me about the effect that price cuts can have on the dairy sector . |
| 9 | Because I believe , that only through him , what he 's told me about the club , that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I really am doing . |
| 10 | They are like , and I 've come here to maybe to help get them in a , a better position , because I believe that , only through him , what he 's told me about the club ; that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I 'm really am doing . |
| 11 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 12 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
| 13 | Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone . |
| 14 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 15 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 16 | We , have I told you about the policeman who was fixed permanently at the ? |
| 17 | She 's told you about the bathing ? ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 19 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 20 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 21 | ‘ Has n't Mr Trelawney told you about the pirates ? |
| 22 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 23 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 24 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 25 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 26 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 27 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 28 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 29 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 30 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |