Example sentences of "had [verb] i about " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 2 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 3 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 4 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 5 | Had the bodies been those of the missing S.A.S. troops , I reasoned , then they could no longer have been ‘ missing ’ , and the Padre would certainly had told me about their discovery . |
| 6 | I was remembering what my father had told me about other conquering heroes who had tried to attack the great bear . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd read The Lonely Londoners and I could relate to it from what my parents had told me about their early days in London [ before moving back to Nigeria when Agbenugba was ten ] . |
| 8 | THAT 'S GREAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT … |
| 9 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 10 | But I was pleased they had told me about it once . |
| 11 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 12 | No-one had told me about pulling teeth ) ‘ … this is the emergency kit , that 's the radio operator waving his arms at you , this the X-ray machine you 'll get the hang of it . ’ |
| 13 | But since no one had told me about what had taken place the night before , I had no idea of what advice they would give . |
| 14 | It was a small , stuffy room , and yet I distinctly felt a chill in the air , like a draught , and I knew that it must be coming from that other world my uncle had told me about , and that the threshold to it was somewhere very close at hand . |
| 15 | I looked at him curiously for Master Benjamin and Doctor Agrippa had told me about him on our journey to the castle . |
| 16 | I put three pounds to win on a horse in the two-fifty , and then five pounds to win on the ‘ dead cert ’ this fellow had told me about in the three-fifteen or three-twenty — something like that . ’ |
| 17 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 18 | ‘ When I picked her up from the station , she had asked me about you and Nigger before we got into Berkeley . |
| 19 | He had asked me about my unusual name . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's right , ’ she kept saying to herself I was glad you had warned me about the Rent Restriction Act , because it began as soon as I arrived . |
| 21 | I thought he and you , both of you , had deceived me about your relationship — the way Suzanna and Raich deceived me for a time . |
| 22 | She quickly finished all she had to tell me about my errands . |