Example sentences of "[be] tell [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 2 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 3 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |
| 4 | But even had I been told something of the nature of their relationship , I am not sure that I would have understood or believed , or felt betrayed . |
| 5 | The other thing I was slightly concerned about it , if it 's a slight digression is the fact that the people at the Lyceum at the Assembly Hall last Saturday did n't know , had n't been told anything about the equipment |
| 6 | But the families say they have still not been told anything by the health authority . |
| 7 | We are told nothing about the heir he instituted . |
| 8 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 9 | For example , I 'm careful about using certain words , like ‘ frequency ’ , with younger audiences , when I 'm telling them about the owl 's unusual ‘ lopsided ’ hearing . |
| 10 | He 'll be telling them about the pressures of being a superstar living in Hollywood ! |
| 11 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 12 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 13 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 14 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 15 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 16 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
| 17 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 18 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 19 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 20 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 21 | She 's told you about the bathing ? ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 23 | Fairfax turns to me : ‘ The laibon is telling me about the lion hunt in which his brother was injured . ’ |
| 24 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 25 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 26 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 27 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 28 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 29 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 30 | Coming back to the council last year , some time in May last year , and er I was telling them about the noise and the situation , at the time . |