Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go now , and say nothing about this . ’ |
| 2 | Goldring says : ‘ It is not a response to PMA and contains nothing about civil defence ’ . |
| 3 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 4 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 5 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations . |
| 8 | The scientific age , with its new chemical and metallurgical industries , produced more pollution and spread it about more than any previous epoch . |
| 9 | ‘ See if she 's put the fire out and done anything about that Martello tower holiday . ’ |
| 10 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 11 | I mean do n't be frightened to come back and see us about that |
| 12 | Well he sai he did say he was gon na come and see you about this money . |
| 13 | He 's absolutely fanatical about them — full of stories about their characters and sounding me about various treatments . |
| 14 | display quite appalling ignorance of other parts of the subject — it does n't seem to matter too much to the arts faculty or the historians , that you concentrate on something here and know nothing about important things elsewhere . |
| 15 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to infiltrate the skinheads and tell them about black people . |
| 17 | He had told her , so that today he could be free — free to go to Charity and tell her about this astonishing feeling inside of him . |
| 18 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 19 | I had been far away at the time , and knew nothing about any murder . |
| 20 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |
| 21 | The game was spoiled by erratic and inconsistent refereeing by Kettering official Brian Hill , who felt it necessary to take aside both captains in the 21st minute and warn them about each team 's tactics . |
| 22 | ‘ As the managing director of a large commercial organisation , I employ solicitors to work on all the legal issues arising from the operation of my business and to advise me about all the new developments in legislation and case law . ’ |
| 23 | I will try and remind you about that , er , on other occasions , so that it does n't er , slip into the recesses . |
| 24 | He expected his father to rise and say something about that being no way to speak to one 's wife or not in front of the child , he was capable of that . |
| 25 | Might go and ask him about that ammonia . |
| 26 | We can use the computer model to resolve the paradox , and learn something about real evolution in the process . |
| 27 | Their use as a screen or selector seems to dictate the curriculum rather than merely to reflect it , and to bring it about that easily measurable accomplishments should be given priority , the repeating of acquired factual information , or the mechanical performance of skills picked up without understanding . |