Example sentences of "i [vb past] you about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 2 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 3 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 4 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 6 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 7 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 9 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
| 10 | I know sa so if you get mine what , I told you about the blind as they go , do n't pull them up when they 're wet . |
| 11 | ‘ I warned you about the job , ’ he said evenly , ‘ but you jumped right in . ’ |
| 12 | In addition to the note I gave you about the AO Development course , we 've been discussing the range of courses available , and we 've come up with the following ‘ wants list ’ . |