Example sentences of "her about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 2 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 3 | When he finished he told her about himself . |
| 4 | He began to tell her about himself . |
| 5 | She wants to catch up on everything they can teach her about themselves , because then she can learn about herself . |
| 6 | The first time it was to stop the defence counsel from questioning her about her sexual history , the second time it was to stop Anderson referring to the victim by her last name , as if talking about a defendent . |
| 7 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |
| 8 | When you meet your potential accountant , ask him or her about who else he or she acts for . |
| 9 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 10 | Lisa and Jo had taken her to clinics , booked her in with midwives , read up on birth technology , warned her about smoking ; and all with an air of adult exasperation towards a wayward child . |
| 11 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 12 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 13 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary . |
| 16 | When her father , a retired civil servant , asked her about his wife 's condition , she would reply : ‘ The same as usual . ’ |
| 17 | By then she had acquired a distinctive Geordie accent and she was upset when her friends at school teased her about her rounded vowels and up and down , sing-song voice . |
| 18 | She asked me to come round and I told her about you not showing up . |
| 19 | ‘ She says , can you come to coffee and tell her about what I 'll need for school . ’ |
| 20 | He was very honest with her about his wife . |
| 21 | He always told her about his affairs . |
| 22 | Karen was the one he 'd stuck with longest , so he told her about his ‘ little florist ’ . |
| 23 | He had asked her about that . |
| 24 | ‘ Poor cow , ’ he 'd said to her about Eleanor , ‘ she thinks she 's going to get something out of me . |
| 25 | He also told her about what she 'd done to his balls . |
| 26 | I 'm always telling her about it ! |
| 27 | Just tell her about Madge being burgled . |
| 28 | What was important to her was sitting here , like this , with Simon telling her about his personal life . |
| 29 | She had told him lies about where Bella 's money was hidden , pretended to be fascinated when he had lied to her about spending the day with his father : ‘ We played golf together , then he took me for a ride in the new car . |
| 30 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |