Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] he about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 2 | ‘ So you told him about Estabrook ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If I tell him about Tim at least he 'll have a sensible line of enquiry . ’ |
| 4 | Gazzer seemed to be talking to himself , not to Marie but , suddenly , he looked straight into her face and said : ‘ Did you tell him where she lived , like you told him about the money ? ’ |
| 5 | And if you tell him about it he tu , he 's in a rock band . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
| 7 | ‘ Gog sent us to prison because we told him about the holes in the AOL . ’ |
| 8 | Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you . |
| 9 | Taxi driver Dermot Smith stabbed his wife Norma , 45 , four times after she taunted him about his sexual performance compared to her lover . |
| 10 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
| 11 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 13 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 14 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 15 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 16 | " I gave him the idea , " Timothy said , " when I told him about my dad . |
| 17 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 18 | When I told him about Marlborough , he cheered up a little . |
| 19 | He did n't believe me when I told him about you , which just goes to show how much people judge by outward appearances . |
| 20 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 21 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 22 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 23 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 24 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 25 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 26 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 27 | When I asked him about his nose he actually growled at me . |
| 28 | He seemed distracted when she asked him about Island Trading 's reliability . |
| 29 | She knows that wanting to look good , or sexy , does n't mean she 's ‘ asking for it ’ , but that belief was shaken by a recent incident , and by the overprotective reaction of her brother to her when she told him about it . |
| 30 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |