Example sentences of "have [vb pp] me about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaine has told me about her sister 's death . |
| 2 | Mavis has told me about it . |
| 3 | ‘ Everything Taheb has told me about you . |
| 4 | A person who is prepared to be named — I shall give the information if called to do so — has told me about the discrimination on training in a trust hospital in Leeds . |
| 5 | Ai'sha has told me about your proclivities ! ’ |
| 6 | A clergyman in his late thirties recently said : ‘ No-one has asked me about my praying since I was ordained ! ’ — whether he wanted anyone to ask him was not clear , but the implication was that he needed it ! |
| 7 | The essential driving force is always difficult to define but the one thing that has struck me about is his intolerance of injustice wherever it presents itself . |
| 8 | ‘ She should have consulted me about Apricot 's name , ’ said Ken . |
| 9 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 10 | ‘ And would you have told me about her sister ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's an even greater pity that you could n't have told me about Ling 's day off , ’ she flared at him . |
| 12 | ‘ You should have told me about Mrs Richards ’ heart condition — and about her request not to be moved from Monte Samana . |
| 13 | I wish you would have told me about it . |
| 14 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 15 | Would you ever really have believed me about my ‘ harem ’ if you had n't met them ? ’ |
| 16 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 17 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 18 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 19 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 20 | Had the bodies been those of the missing S.A.S. troops , I reasoned , then they could no longer have been ‘ missing ’ , and the Padre would certainly had told me about their discovery . |
| 21 | I was remembering what my father had told me about other conquering heroes who had tried to attack the great bear . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |
| 23 | THAT 'S GREAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT … |
| 24 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 25 | But I was pleased they had told me about it once . |
| 26 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 27 | No-one had told me about pulling teeth ) ‘ … this is the emergency kit , that 's the radio operator waving his arms at you , this the X-ray machine you 'll get the hang of it . ’ |
| 28 | But since no one had told me about what had taken place the night before , I had no idea of what advice they would give . |
| 29 | It was a small , stuffy room , and yet I distinctly felt a chill in the air , like a draught , and I knew that it must be coming from that other world my uncle had told me about , and that the threshold to it was somewhere very close at hand . |
| 30 | I looked at him curiously for Master Benjamin and Doctor Agrippa had told me about him on our journey to the castle . |