Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to tell the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , thanks be to God , some were saved to tell the news . |
| 2 | The neighbours were told to tell the police if I came back . ’ |
| 3 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 4 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 5 | She was going to tell the truth . |
| 6 | I was just wondering when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was going to tell the House how his Government intend to get out of the recession that they have created . |
| 7 | He was starting to tell the truth — that was what it was . |
| 8 | And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er . |
| 9 | The unfortunate Dorian Williams , whose cultured , distinctly upper-class accent was synonymous with commentary on the sport , was required to tell the viewers that the next contestant was Harvey Smith riding ‘ Hitachi Music Centre ’ . |
| 10 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |