Example sentences of "to [pron] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 2 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 3 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 4 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 5 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 6 | I explained to them about the act I 've got . " |
| 7 | It will be sent unsolicited to all parents , so that there will be a great increase in the information available to them about the school . |
| 8 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |
| 9 | We complained to them about the target . |
| 10 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't talk to me about the title . |
| 12 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 13 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 14 | Also , as the first signatory of the motion , may I say that since it was tabled statements have been made to me about the involvement of Stella Rimington and Mr. Roger Windsor of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 15 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 16 | ‘ Two years ago Adai talked to me about the AOL . |
| 17 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 18 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 19 | He was actually expressly forbidden to speak to me about the matter . |
| 20 | Once or twice , at mealtimes , I thought Quigley was going to speak to me about the matter . |
| 21 | ‘ I have considered all the facts that you describe relating to the circumstances and they are substantially as in my officer 's report to me about the death . |
| 22 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 23 | But some critics , and a number of ordinary viewers who have spoken to me about the show , feel rather uneasy . |
| 24 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 25 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to write to me about the details of the case to which he referred I shall be happy to respond . |
| 26 | The press officer , Barbara Bloomfield , complained at a meeting of the Greens ' council in January 1990 that if she wanted to step out of the office she had to get a volunteer to take her place , possibly an overseas student who knew next to nothing about the press or the party . |
| 27 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 28 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 29 | The Union leaders are going to send some doctors to the factory to talk to everyone about the dangers of uranium . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |