Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 2 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 3 | And : ‘ I hear people are always writing to her about the deaths of their hearts . ’ |
| 4 | They kept writing to her about retrenchment till her dying day . |
| 5 | I am writing to you about the case of Im Su-Kyong , who was arrested for ten years for attending a peace march from North Korea to South Korea . |
| 6 | I am writing to you about your father . |
| 7 | Your correspondent Mr. Pike wrote to me before writing to you about his diesel tacho . |
| 8 | Q I 'm writing to you about one of the programs on your November Mega Disk . |
| 9 | And Robert Urquhart had been shown to be lying to her about more than his affections . |
| 10 | That does n't make her schizophrenic , of course , but it 's the little things , her paranoia , her unkempt appearance … and yesterday she was whispering to me about microphones in the lecture room . |
| 11 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 12 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 13 | In a moment we 'll be speaking to him about his son 's plight , but first we go over to Switzerland where our reporter , John Marshall , has been following the story . |
| 14 | Did you get that bit erm , when I was speaking to you about how everybody hates you and stuff ? |
| 15 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 16 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
| 17 | What were you saying to them about |
| 18 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 19 | Lead words , if you want to sit down and , in , in general you see er , you want to just sit down and think about what you 're doing and what you 're not doing , you can sit down and exercise on these words , now I 'm not saying you 'd ever want to do that , right now if , now you know I was saying to you about comparative questions right |
| 20 | Remember I was saying to you about the whole of the rag trade ? |
| 21 | How do people make sense of the variety of ideas coming to them about food ? |
| 22 | Well , you 're always sprouting to us about how fucking good you are . |
| 23 | ‘ Who the heck do you think you are , ’ he shouted , ‘ The Archbishop of Canterbury or something , preaching to me about honesty ? |
| 24 | Perhaps talking to her about Rob made him feel that someone was dancing on his own grave . |
| 25 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
| 26 | He began talking to her about birdsong , about bird music , really . |
| 27 | I 've never stopped myself talking to her about anything before , she thought . |
| 28 | Charlotte had found something that Emily had written , and was talking to her about it . |
| 29 | She did not have long to brood because Harbury began talking to her about the MacQuillan case . |
| 30 | I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ? |