Example sentences of "he about " in BNC.

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1 Waiting in the wings is a book by him about Ursula , entitled Style , which , according to Graham Greene , who was sent the manuscript , could be edited for publication .
2 Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote .
3 I explained to him about the boxing-match and the waterfall and he went up close and examined the glass minutely , different areas of it , taking his time .
4 In her letter she told him about her job , her salary and the contract she had won yesterday .
5 In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available .
6 His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel .
7 Peter Verkhovensky is telling him about a religious conversation among some army officers .
8 Audiences might like to quiz him about his favourite sporting moment .
9 ‘ Then I 'd talk to him about the socio-economic roots of poverty . ’
10 He broke down and cried when we talked to him about it . ’
11 Michael told him about the evidence of religious experience in the Christian mystics ; both of what some of the great masters had said about it and of the slighter experience of simple Christians .
12 Soon after all this was agreed , he went to see Eden to have a talk with him about new appointments , and because Eden wanted to know him better .
13 It was Peters who chided him about his frail physique , which led to his regular attendance at August 's Gymnasium , which was in the basement of Apley Hall .
14 This revolutionary conclusion , which is perhaps the most important for the general reader of The Origin , is one easily supported by modern anthropologists although they might disagree with him about what exactly will happen when the change comes or even whether this kind of change can be predicted .
15 John had claimed it was just possible to go backwards ( as it were ) , but you must talk to him about that .
16 I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch .
17 He eyed Nathan suspiciously , clearly wondering whether he would survive the trip , but gave a reassuring ‘ impressed ’ look when Nat told him about our trip over Tromsdalen .
18 ‘ I told him about his man Modena at 40–1 .
19 Then I told him about his man Modena at 40–1 .
20 But others criticised her for interrupting too often and looking unprofessional as she slumped in her seat asking him about his O level exam achievements .
21 He even telephoned Wexford to tell him about it , his elation subsiding somewhat when he heard the chief inspector had also found this out three hours before .
22 ‘ But my husband is going to teach me , ’ she said ‘ and I am going to teach him about ballet . ’
23 You can explain to him about your system and he 'll put the books back where he found them . ’
24 Anthea Turner ( above ) radiant after her marriage to Peter Powell — but what a shame no one told him about Head and Shoulders
25 Someone ought to ask him about that .
26 Soon after Sandys had been appointed , Mountbatten 's immediate predecessor as First Sea Lord , Sir Roderic McGrigor , had written to warn him about Sandys ’ views .
27 Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January .
28 But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO .
29 Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio .
30 Officially he does not share Bacon 's acceptance of formal causes , and even his agreement with him about the relevance to human actions of the final causes of Aristotelian tradition is qualified by the thought that , in the end , they are reducible to efficient causes .
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