Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did 'e tell yer about 'is boxin ? ’ |
| 2 | I was pleased that he could come , although I did not want him to discover anything about my horrible work . |
| 3 | And of course I was to blame for not keeping on his and making him do something about it . |
| 4 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 5 | These letter flattered Brutus and begged him to do something about Rome . |
| 6 | He 's very proud ; it 's too difficult for him to do anything about it now . |
| 7 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 8 | Yeah , probably , me and this other mate he 'd a , did a , I can , I can remember him saying something about I 'll race yeah , it , like I remember just remember him , me and him run running down ramps and stuff trying to get back down to the ground floor , so . |
| 9 | I do n't remember him saying anything about a job . ’ |
| 10 | I heard him mention something about organs to another guest so I put my oar in and started such a nice conversation . |
| 11 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 12 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |
| 13 | I remember him telling me about that , that stone . |
| 14 | Was she waiting for him to say something about the letter ? |
| 15 | On their first encounter , she had drawn him abruptly into her chamber and asked him to tell her about Nicholas . |
| 16 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 17 | The Baskerville lawyers are trying to contact him to tell him about his good fortune . |
| 18 | They could never get him to tell anything about the life he had lived before he came to Knockglen . |
| 19 | Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Will he reassure me about the future of those patients who , until now , have been in the rheumatology unit of Ruchill hospital ? |
| 22 | He asked her about the place so much like the valley , the place where she 'd been born . |
| 23 | He asked her about Stock ; had she come to London for him ? |
| 24 | And their shared taste for rich cake with coffee late at night restored her faith in their friendship a little , so that when he asked her about her family 's plans for Christmas she was able to answer in a relaxed and natural way . |
| 25 | When he asked her about her day , over coffee , she was vague . |
| 26 | Why he asked her about it I could n't tell you . |
| 27 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 28 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 29 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 30 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |