Example sentences of "him about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But , before Robert had the chance to ask him about the Golden Calf of the Druze , or what a Nizari Ismaili might be , or how many of either group might be lurking around Wimbledon , the bell sounded for the end of break , and , below them , in the Great Hall , he heard the sounds of the whole school assembling for nature , recreation and Islamic dancing . |
| 4 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 5 | Maybe I shall hear full soon enough , but I dare not ask him about the poor lady . |
| 6 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 7 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 8 | He also talks to him about the possible relationship between stress , smoking , poor dietary habits , alcohol and the incidence of peptic ulcers so that Peter understands what is happening and can consider what changes he might make in his lifestyle . |
| 9 | Iain reported that Tim Moulds had informed him about the present situation . |
| 10 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 11 | The anti-terrorist branch were looking hard at MacQuillan 's political life , but Wickham knew someone who would certainly be able to tell him about the dead man 's business life . |
| 12 | With his debut feature Swoon , director Tom Kalin has put on screen everything his grandmother did n't tell him about the infamous child murderers . |
| 13 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 14 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 15 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 16 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 17 | What was it she had said to him about the missing family silver ? |
| 18 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He also carefully counts the local council votes in all the wards which affect his constituency to see what they can tell him about the likely outcome of the parliamentary election . |
| 21 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 22 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 23 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |