Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] tell [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 2 | Silver Reed tell me the double knit ribber does have a yarn holder and this holds the yarns you are not using at the end of the needle bed , making changing by hand easier . |
| 3 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 4 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 5 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 6 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 7 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 8 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 9 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
| 10 | The dustbag itself forms part of the filtration system , so if high filtration is important to you , be sure to look out for cleaners that have dust indicators to tell you the amount the bag contains . |
| 11 | Lancashire County Council tell me the skip will be provided from Tuesday 30th March to Tuesday 6th April . |
| 12 | Sheriff Paterson told her the charity had been devastated as a result of her actions . |
| 13 | In reply to a Commons question the Defence minister Jonathanj Aitken told him the project would receive ’ very careful scrutiny . ’ |
| 14 | ( The Operations Information Officer tells me the Adjutant is really going to Dhekelia to water-ski-but then Operations Information is seldom accurate ! ) |
| 15 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |
| 16 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |