Example sentences of "he [verb] us about " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 2 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 3 | And he , he used to tell us about his travels around America , you know and he , he told us about working in Baltimore in the forty sixth street or something , in a forge , they called them forges out there . |
| 4 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 5 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 6 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 7 | He told us about Lisa . |
| 8 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 9 | Mr Cross has not told us what he did with Hiatt 's stock of leg irons when their export was banned in 1984 , nor has he told us about Hiatt 's attempts to export ‘ extended ’ cuffs which the government has now included in the ban . |
| 10 | And , as he warned us about the hewers of coal , we are as capable of forgetting that , as he did , " as we forget the " blood in our veins ' . |
| 11 | Will he tell us about the relationship between his Department and Scottish Enterprise because , in the defence industry , we need a skills audit , which he could finance ? |
| 12 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 13 | Sitting at a counter surrounded by the fulsome figures of the Boo Yaa Tribe , with his goatee beard and black stetson hat , he tells us about a party he 's giving at his home in Chicago . |
| 14 | He tells us about Old Mother Walsh and how the snake is coming for him . |
| 15 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 16 | He talked to us kindly , his grey eyes dancing with amusement as he questioned us about our journey . |