Example sentences of "[noun] tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 2 | The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too . |
| 3 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 4 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 5 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 6 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 7 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 8 | Florrie told her in no uncertain terms that she would have to get used to it . |
| 9 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
| 10 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 12 | ‘ Poor Owen — he seems to have broken every bone in his body , ’ Ross told her with a heavy sigh . |
| 13 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 14 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 15 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 16 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 17 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 18 | A friend told him about an ex-demonstration model available at a heavily discounted price . |
| 19 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 20 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 21 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 22 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 23 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 24 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 25 | Beth told her in a reproachful voice . |
| 26 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 27 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 28 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 29 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 30 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |