Example sentences of "i [verb] him about [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
3 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
4 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
5 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
6 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
9 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
10 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
11 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
12 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
13 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
14 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
15 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
18 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
19 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
20 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
21 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
22 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
23 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
24 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
25 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |
26 | Er I told him about the other one . |
27 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
28 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
29 | Then , when I see there is the doubt , that when I tell him about the baby . |
30 | I tell him about the whisky story and the chill-filtering and the colouring but he already seems to know it all . |