Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIRECTOR Terence Young has been telling me about his new film project — a suspense movie , Metal Tree , starring close friend Brooke Shields . |
| 2 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 3 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 4 | ANNA Bergman has been telling me about her best Christmas present — a reconciliation with her father , Swedish film director Ingmar . |
| 5 | Marie has been telling me about her . |
| 6 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose Iris has been telling you about my chats with ‘ the nutter ’ , as she calls him ? ’ |
| 8 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 9 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 10 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 11 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 12 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 13 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 14 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 15 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 16 | A member of the group mentioned that an uncle of his , a retired coal miner , had been telling him about Highlander , and it was suggested that Highlander might be willing to help in some way . |
| 17 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 18 | The country was beckoning again , and his friend van Rappard had been telling him about Drenthe , a remote moorland region in the north of Holland which was starting to attract artists . |
| 19 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 20 | Now go and relax in your dressing-room for a little while — try a few of those deep-breathing exercises you 've been telling me about . |
| 21 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 22 | I 've been telling her about that and all . |
| 23 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 24 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 25 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 26 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 27 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 28 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 29 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 30 | ‘ I have no real idea what people have been telling you about my involvement with MI6 at the time . |