Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 3 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 4 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 5 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 6 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 7 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 9 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 10 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 11 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 12 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 13 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 14 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 15 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 16 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 17 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 18 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 19 | I told her about the hops . |
| 20 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 21 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 22 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 23 | I told her about the meeting . |
| 24 | ‘ I told her about the suffering of battered women and of the desperate need to make sure they have somewhere to run , ’ said Mrs Horley . |
| 25 | I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza . |
| 26 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 27 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 28 | at er , I , I do n't remember anything , anything at all , but she said , I told her about the baby , she did n't know about that |
| 29 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 30 | 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 … . |