Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 2 | A group of pupils studying science asked me about the new member of staff . |
| 3 | Bobby Lavender asked me about the target range . |
| 4 | She often asked me about the hills in the distance , beyond the moors , and wanted to ride her pony there . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman asked me about the degree of support from medical staff . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend asked me about the medical ethics of the issue . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) asked me about the independence of the funding council . |
| 8 | You asked me about the stance we were to adopt . |
| 9 | If the official view in the Church cared nothing about the bishop in his function as apostolic teacher , anyone who was trained to teach had a duty to join the bishop 's bench if he were asked . |
| 10 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 11 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 12 | Mahmoud asked them about the girl . |
| 13 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 14 | Is that the day Jane asked them about the pension , how much there 'd |
| 15 | ‘ My captain phoned you about the two people from OM-45 . |
| 16 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 17 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 18 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 19 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 20 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 21 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 22 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 23 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 24 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 25 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 26 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 27 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 28 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 29 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 30 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |