Example sentences of "[pron] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's never said anything to me about moving away from Cliff Top — ’ |
| 32 | ‘ Dora , did n't you say something to me about trying to have a word with Dieter yesterday morning , before you went off to your interview ? ’ |
| 33 | She told me about seeing you at that nightclub . ’ |
| 34 | And then Sally Gunnell talked to me about stuffing her gold medal in a cupboard at home . |
| 35 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 36 | You used to go on at me about getting out . |
| 37 | Only the missus keeps on to me about getting some new curtains — ’ |
| 38 | tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further |
| 39 | The only thing that worries me about taking that out is that you then create a massive empty space , if you have got |
| 40 | Especially since you 'd just asked me about investing in your business … ’ |
| 41 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 42 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 43 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 44 | Miss Lucchesi was talking to me about fingering . " |
| 45 | Go on , Vern — tell me about knowing , and hiding . |
| 46 | Knitters often ask me about knitting double jacquard , saying that they do n't like the floats on single-bed Fair Isle fabrics . |
| 47 | ‘ My brother said nothing to me about acting as a romantic go-between . |
| 48 | The women who talked to me about using their tears to deal with anger , recognized quite clearly what they were doing . |
| 49 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 50 | ‘ I was doubtful when you told me about sharing your house with two young vets , but now I think you were right . |
| 51 | I told Mum that one day , to stop her nagging me about revising . |
| 52 | You may be as miserable as the people who write to me about losing their jobs . |
| 53 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 54 | Her husband muttered something to me about going to find her and then stormed off . ’ |
| 55 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 56 | She said , ‘ The other day Silvia said something to me about going to Alghero . ’ |
| 57 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 58 | ‘ Tell me about poaching pheasants . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ And does n't it reassure you to know she told me about coming here when she kept it from her family ? ’ |
| 60 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |