Example sentences of "say to [pron] about " in BNC.

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1 Ludens had not forgotten what Marcus had said to him about Irina .
2 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 … .
3 What was it she had said to him about the missing family silver ?
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 ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me .
6 Was it true , what he had said to her about the value of this family life ?
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 What were you saying to them about
10 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 .
11 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
12 Remember I was saying to you about the whole of the rag trade ?
13 As to her other point , I can say only what I said to her about her calculations on nursery school resources .
14 And said to her about erm putting the kids to bed .
15 I said to her about that phone call did n't I ?
16 So if we start pulling them about which is cos I said to her about the hall and if I do n't scrub it all off we 're gon na have to erm gon na have to do the hall and er I said we 've got to try to put it on because the walls are so ooh bitty you know what I mean ?
17 then I , and he said to me about
18 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 .
19 Er somebody said to me about her childhood experiences , well I did n't really survive them , I 'm just here still because I did n't die .
20 said to him about it when we first came and er , he said about when , when we were on about sending and I do n't , they 're going to a Catholic school and he says oh the Catholic schools around here are n't very good and the , the Leeds and that are the best
21 I said to him about holding back not giving us our quota I said they can see we 're not doing now . .
22 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
23 And then he said er , I said to him about
24 Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming .
25 So what has all this got to say to us about ‘ Boggers ’ , Mrs Glen and all teachers ( good and bad ) everywhere ?
26 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 .
27 God she 's gon na have something to say to you about your hair
28 ask you , ask you this , what , what did your father say to you about the tinkers ?
29 No , what I 'm gon na say to you about this
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