Example sentences of "[vb pp] him about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Cos I 've seen him about a lot . |
| 3 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 4 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 5 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 6 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 9 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 10 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 11 | " Have you asked him about the insurance valuation ? " |
| 12 | She had asked him about the planet . |
| 13 | We have , therefore , beaten him about the head with Eric Partridge 's unimpeachable Dictionary of Slang , which defines a gricer as an ‘ engine spotter . ’ |
| 14 | Anthony would probably move on sooner or later ; his bosses , two Anglo-Italian academics , had already warned him about the carelessness of his work . |