Example sentences of "he about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to see him about a play I have written . ’ |
| 2 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 3 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 4 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 5 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 6 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 7 | Just slap him about a bit . |
| 8 | ‘ In your brother 's papers there is mention of something your father told him about a year ago which greatly surprised and puzzled him . |
| 9 | In J.F. Campbell 's Popular Tales of the West Highlands ( XXVIII ) there is the story of The Smith and The Fairies which the Rev. Thomas Pattieson told him about a MacEachern at Crosbrig . |
| 10 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
| 11 | And though , by a well-established convention , Members do not ask Ministers questions about the day-to-day conduct of the industries ' affairs , since that is by definition not government business , they may very well ask him about a matter that most certainly is : about the appointments Ministers make to the boards of nationalised industries . |
| 12 | Howard wakes up in hospital with two people waiting to question him about a robbery and a dead body . |
| 13 | Pry now asks you to advise him about a house he wants to buy . |
| 14 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 15 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 16 | In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available . |
| 17 | On the other hand , talk to him about a book — like one that Gordon Jackson lent him — and he would go overboard about it . ’ |
| 18 | Cos I 've seen him about a lot . |
| 19 | Officially he does not share Bacon 's acceptance of formal causes , and even his agreement with him about the relevance to human actions of the final causes of Aristotelian tradition is qualified by the thought that , in the end , they are reducible to efficient causes . |
| 20 | Dromore jockey John Reid who is having his best ever season was in a suitably bullish mood when I spoke to him about the remainder of the 1993 Flat racing year which has seen him head inexorably towards 100 winners for the first time in his career . |
| 21 | did he tell him about the hole in the wing then ? |
| 22 | She explained the need for absolute cleanliness , showed him where he could wash , and told him about the masks and gowns . |
| 23 | However , he did ask him about the crew , particularly those on the Santa Maria . |
| 24 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 25 | He even had the amplitude to take a glass of port with Mr Joseph Robinson and talk as well as listen to him about the Battle of the Nile . |
| 26 | Chatting to him about the service ( on February 16 , two days after the Valentines ' martyrdom ) it was clear he might take the opportunity to make a point or two about the state of modern human relationships as not touched on in your average Valentine 's card . |
| 27 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 28 | And people are asking for advice and blessings , telling him about the problems they trust him to solve . |
| 29 | Remembering that Peter Suvarov had , himself , taken part in that Revolution , Julia asked him about the Russians ' probable intentions . |
| 30 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |