Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Shrimpy made me laugh me about it cracks me up like ! |
| 2 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't want me to know anything about you , so why should you want to know anything about me ? ’ |
| 4 | I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ? |
| 5 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 6 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 7 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 8 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 9 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 10 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 11 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 12 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 13 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
| 14 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 15 | I asked him about his shamanism . |
| 16 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 17 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 18 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 19 | I asked him about Heath 's style as Prime Minister : |
| 20 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 21 | I asked him about his communication system with the engineer . |
| 22 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 23 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 24 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 25 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 26 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 27 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 28 | Later , as Wemmick and I left Jaggers ' house together , I asked him about his employer 's housekeeper . |
| 29 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 30 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |