Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 2 | She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall . |
| 3 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 4 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 5 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 6 | She told me about the Sheikhas of Al Ain , which were good and which were not truly hospitable or kind . |
| 7 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 8 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 9 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 10 | She told him about the anti-blood-sports campaigner . |
| 11 | She told him about the Elder , and of the eternity of memories he had poured unasked into her head . |
| 12 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 13 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 14 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 15 | But then she remembered Matthew 's smiling face when she told him about the Avery prize . |
| 16 | She told him about the puzzle of the second set of keys , then Harbury wandered back and began to say what he knew of the case . |
| 17 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
| 18 | She warned them about the steep steps . |
| 19 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |