Example sentences of "to [pers pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 2 | We complained to them about the target . |
| 3 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 4 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 5 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 6 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |
| 7 | I explained to them about the act I 've got . " |
| 8 | It will be sent unsolicited to all parents , so that there will be a great increase in the information available to them about the school . |
| 9 | John and Norma were escorted out of Jeffrey Archer 's Bridal Suite and back to their own and since it was not safe to leave the hotel , Lady Thatcher accompanied them , as she wanted to talk to them about the progress of her Foundation . |
| 10 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 11 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 12 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 13 | He was actually expressly forbidden to speak to me about the matter . |
| 14 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 15 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't talk to me about the title . |
| 17 | I just could n't get the Queen to talk to me about the situation . |
| 18 | Do n't talk to me about the wonderful Victoria . ’ |
| 19 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 20 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 21 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 22 | ‘ I have considered all the facts that you describe relating to the circumstances and they are substantially as in my officer 's report to me about the death . |
| 23 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 24 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Two years ago Adai talked to me about the AOL . |
| 26 | It seems to me about the most you can ask of the human body . |
| 27 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 28 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 29 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 30 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |