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Example sentences of "me about the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them .
2	‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’
3	He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business .
4	He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness .
5	I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton .
6	Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives .
7	You 'd better tell me about the other night .
8	A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff .
9	‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus .
10	I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences .
11	He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit .
12	My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about .
13	The carpenter tells me about the Khaki scouts .
14	‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’
15	And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’
16	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 .
17	Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it .
18	He spent half a day teaching me about the various policies and endowments , the way to figure cash surrender values , the matter of group insurance , and the various approaches to a prospect by the insurance salesman .
19	My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue .
20	Can anyone one tell me about the solar system , or anything they know about it .
21	Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right .
22	Gilbert had served my Mass every morning and was now writing to tell me about the approaching Easter examinations and was hoping to do well .
23	‘ Tell me about the white patient , ’ I asked him .
24	What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board .
25	‘ What depresses me about the whole position is that skills are so important and the lack of them now is undermining our whole competitive position .
26	‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’
27	You were telling me about the common lodging houses .
28	The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin .
29	Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs .
30	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 .