Example sentences of "told [pers pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 2 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 3 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 4 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 5 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 6 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 7 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 8 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 9 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 10 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 11 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 12 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 13 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 14 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 15 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 16 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 17 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 18 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 19 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 20 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 21 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
| 22 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 24 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 25 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 26 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 27 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 28 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 29 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 30 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |