Example sentences of "he [verb] me about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him telling me about that , that stone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Will he reassure me about the future of those patients who , until now , have been in the rheumatology unit of Ruchill hospital ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He asked me about costs and what exactly I 'd been doing . |
| 7 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 8 | At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore . |
| 9 | Having by then disposed of public affairs , he asked me about my work at the LCC school . |
| 10 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 11 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 12 | Then he told me about his climb up Iceland 's highest mountain . |
| 13 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 14 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |
| 15 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 17 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 18 | He told me about Aunt Emily … and Mr Spot . ’ |
| 19 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 20 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |
| 21 | We walked solemnly around Gloucester in and out of the Cathedral precincts while he told me about his childhood . |
| 22 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 23 | He told me about the cross . |
| 24 | Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent . |
| 25 | He told me about it , but … well , I wanted to see whether it really was the kind of thing I wanted . ’ |
| 26 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 27 | I suppose I should be grateful he told me about the call at all , but he had to really , did n't he ? |
| 28 | He told me about himself and where he was staying and about how people treated him . |
| 29 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 30 | He told me about it when I had dinner with him on the Monday evening . |