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 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
15 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
18 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
19 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
20 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ 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 . |
23 | Er I told him about the other one . |
24 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
29 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
30 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |