Example sentences of "say to [pron] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two brothers went back into the Guild Office , and Ebenezer began to gasp and splutter , telling his story as best he could : what Florrie had said to him about Tom 's letter and what Tom had threatened to do … . |
| 2 | Ludens had not forgotten what Marcus had said to him about Irina . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me . |
| 4 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 7 | and hopefully But I said to him about Duttons Road and I said to him what I 'll do is , I 've got ta go to town tomorrow I 'll er get some tapes and start taping |
| 8 | The final thing I want to say to you about children 's services is , we have to , we have , having great trouble breaking into prevention . |