Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven years on the Ratcliff Highway beat had taught him about Sids . |
| 2 | Because I had taught him about it you know , from coming from . |
| 3 | He had formulated these principles on several occasions in the past , not least when monks had consulted him about accepting ecclesiastical promotion . |
| 4 | He remembered a conversation he 'd once had with his brother , who had teased him about his interest in the works of Elinor Dove . |
| 5 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 6 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 7 | Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago . |
| 8 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 9 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 10 | Endill presumed it was the box of questions the Bookman had told him about . |
| 11 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 12 | Rubberneck , sometimes — Meg had told him about St Francis , his favourite saint — thought of them as birds . |
| 13 | Chantal 's strange reaction after she had told him about Philippe Chaumont . |
| 14 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 15 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 16 | nobody 'd told him , and then when I got in touch with him erm he said no nobody had told him about it . |
| 17 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 18 | Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence . |
| 19 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 20 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 21 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 22 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 23 | Greeting Coleman like an old friend , although they had met only once before , Hurley said Sasser had told him about Condor Television and its plans for covering events in Lebanon , and how about joining him for lunch ? |
| 24 | He wished the coroner had told him about this ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Indeed , the French envoy de Craon knew more , claiming the Prince had told him about Lady Eleanor 's death long before the porter had even reached Woodstock . |
| 27 | Mitch asked after she had told him about Devlin Parnham 's orders . |
| 28 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 29 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 30 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |