Example sentences of "[noun] tell [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 2 | Nor does the Kennel Club tell me about its achievements . |
| 3 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 4 | It is not so easy to change the playmates when they are brothers and/or sisters ( siblings ) , and many parents tell me of their concern about the seemingly incessant feuding that goes on among brothers and sisters . |
| 5 | Brenda tell you of Tesco 's expectations of putting one up in Horsell Jean ? |
| 6 | But if you do n't do what the other lasses tell you to , you 're called a softie or a shit or something like that . |
| 7 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 8 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 9 | So the changes in the spectral lines tell us of changes in the Sun 's temperature , which in turn reveal changes in the solar luminosity . |
| 10 | Go on Roy tell us about Jane . |
| 11 | It 's the people's. tell you in a minute . |
| 12 | It put me in mind of the man I met there , and Ill tell you for free , you 're nothing like him . |
| 13 | Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism . |
| 14 | First , what does the Yugoslav experience tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the ‘ import-led growth ’ strategy ? |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The DoE tell me in a letter that they are free from indemnity . |
| 17 | She rang erm a le , did she tell so , did , mum tell you about the time she had erm some calls about two in the morning ? |
| 18 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 19 | Q. Tell me in Gujerati . |
| 20 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |
| 23 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 24 | One evening after dinner Wendell Harvey had demanded that Aubrey tell them about his childhood at The Grange , and how Harry had become involved with the family . |
| 25 | Would Father tell them about me , or had he already circulated the news ? |
| 26 | Like Britain 's Royal Family , he valued every opportunity to cut through ritual and listen to his people tell it like it was . |
| 27 | I 'd listened to Gareth tell him in detail on Sunday evening . |
| 28 | If in a residential school staff tell me in interviews that the children are happy and well behaved but records show high levels of absconding and excessive punishment , I would be suspicious about the validity of the interview material . |
| 29 | In the boozer later , non-combatant pals tell me about Hampstead 's strange Green candidate , whose campaign is based on slagging Glenda . |
| 30 | Straightforward and educational , I Do n't Sound Like Nobody cuts the crap and lets one of the greats tell it like it is . |