Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 2 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 3 | Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ? |
| 4 | They could never get him to tell anything about the life he had lived before he came to Knockglen . |
| 5 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
| 6 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 7 | Will he reassure me about the future of those patients who , until now , have been in the rheumatology unit of Ruchill hospital ? |
| 8 | He asked her about the place so much like the valley , the place where she 'd been born . |
| 9 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 10 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 11 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 12 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 13 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 14 | He muttered something about the place being primitive . |
| 15 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
| 16 | He told her about the woman with the flute . |
| 17 | He told her about the fairies who lived in the holes on the river bank , and how Billy was half leprechaun . |
| 18 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 19 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 20 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 21 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 22 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 23 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 24 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 25 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 26 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 27 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 28 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 29 | He told me about the cross . |
| 30 | Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent . |