Example sentences of "i [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 2 | Let us imagine that Big Ted , having heard me talk about this point , is trying to explain it to Little Ted in the pub afterwards : |
| 3 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 4 | You 've heard me talk about him . ’ |
| 5 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 6 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 7 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 8 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 9 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 10 | Maybe the police has made me this way , but do you not see that if you 're going to come in here asking me questions about my family , if you 're going to want to know all these things , I 've got to be able to trust you ? |
| 11 | They asked me questions about myself and my squadron and the way I was shot down . |
| 12 | The only time I do that is when I 'm talking to journalists and they ask me questions about the past . |
| 13 | Maria often read to the others from the newspaper , and asked me questions about it . |
| 14 | He asked me questions about Syl and about myself without any pretence at politeness . |
| 15 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 16 | I have just met some colleagues in the House — and I do not dare to name the Opposition Members — who asked me questions about the amendment because there were points that they could not understand or that they had not seen before . |
| 17 | The visitor told me things about her which I did n't believe , but still I nodded my head as if to confirm what she had said . |
| 18 | Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands . |
| 19 | He always liked to tell me things about my lover that my lover kept from me . |
| 20 | It told me things about life in the mills and factories I 'd never have found out for myself in a thousand years . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll have to tell me missis about that trick , and tell her to get going and save some money … |
| 22 | I am ex RAF , please send me details about membership ( tick if required ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 24 | So Brett 'n' Damon ‘ m ’ me hand about playing Stackheel Olympics for a bit and then we go into town to look at the girls . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's driving me nuts about it , and he wants them out by Christmas , ’ North confided . |
| 26 | Another prisoner gave me information about him . |
| 27 | She 's lonely and she plied me with tea and scones and the rest , and gave me information about her neighbours , whom she seems to like quite a bit . |