Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] he about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 2 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 3 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 4 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 5 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 6 | And I told him about it , and he said oh yes , the pilot light has gone out and he relit it . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | And she told him about it . |
| 10 | Richard phoned and she told him about it , omitting the part about her offer of a donation . |
| 11 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |