Example sentences of "i about " in BNC.
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| 1 | A builder friend of mine once talked to me about mistakes made by builders . |
| 2 | Tell me about your audition to get Ophelia . |
| 3 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 4 | But then decided to ignore my actions , started telling me about himself , his latest article , latest book , latest catalogue introduction , latest love . |
| 5 | He tried before leaving , as he was looking at his watch , to press me about the glass , but we know each other too well . |
| 6 | You did n't have to tell Claire , Annabel or me about Nanny 's cold hands ; we had suffered from them most of our lives , but what that had to do with pastry was what Father described as a ‘ female mystery ’ . |
| 7 | I remember the shock of realizing that this was my last ever second-year class , then my last ever third-year class , and then people started asking me about my leaving party . |
| 8 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 9 | I LIKE that you tell me about it , your flesh impatient with words , you say : go inside me — yeah — yeah — no — more — and your body whiplashes head to toe , the ill-appreciated G spot , baby you got it . |
| 10 | Why do you keep asking me about yourself ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you getting me out of bed at this hour to talk to me about my brother ? ’ she demanded . |
| 12 | The Nigerian who is six feet four inches tall , tells me about his audition to get into this college . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me about the funny Dutch houses and Red Indians , ’ he would ask . |
| 14 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 15 | At a nearby house , Leonard Hough , a retired schoolmaster , had earlier told me about ‘ the fog ’ which he says comes from the factory . |
| 16 | ‘ YOU WO N'T ask me about abortion , will you ? ’ said Lord Joseph , apprehensively . |
| 17 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 18 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 19 | ‘ If I cut my profits and prices to whatever lower level you prescribe — for I assume I shall have your guidance on what that should be — will you advise me about the basis on which I should ration the consumers of my article ? |
| 20 | statistically , I get far more phone calls from record companies , lawyers and very occasionally from publishers telling me about a new act they have just signed . |
| 21 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 22 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 23 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 24 | What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up . |
| 25 | Then he told me about his climb up Iceland 's highest mountain . |
| 26 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 27 | But it is worth mentioning what a very experienced and established psychiatrist told me about his work when I interviewed him . |
| 28 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |
| 29 | But I will not mention here every group or Asian immigrants in Britain , nor analyse every family structure , but present what the Asian women I spoke to told me about their feelings and situations . |
| 30 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |