Example sentences of "tell [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst and Sir John Forster told conflicting stories in the subsequent enquiry . |
| 2 | In an attempt to " depoliticize " the role of the police , de Klerk on Jan. 17 , 1990 , told 500 police in Pretoria that the government would " stop asking you to fight in the front trenches in political battles " , and said that henceforth police would " not be required to prevent people from marching to gain support for their views " ; instead police should concentrate on combating crime . |
| 3 | ‘ Truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred , ’ he told joyous crowds in Wenceslas Square , Prague . |
| 4 | ‘ Fru Møller just told that lady that it never rains here in August , but the dolls say it often does and they packed their mackintoshes ! ’ |
| 5 | I told that lady . ’ |
| 6 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 7 | I told that woman that if she offered me |
| 8 | GOVERNMENT TOLD THAT APPOINTMENT OF / TEMPORARY JUDGES COULD LEAD TO / MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE |
| 9 | Couples told that fertility service may end |
| 10 | She repeatedly phoned Landlords , but was either unable to get an answer or told that manager Howard Keizner was unavailable . |
| 11 | IRA , mourners told LOYALIST murder gangs are simply doing the work of and for republican terrorists , a bishop told mourners today . |
| 12 | But the lawyer said that earlier one of them told ten-year-old Christopher : ‘ It looks like we 'll not be seeing our children at Christmas but you 're going to have your daddy after all . ’ |
| 13 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 14 | The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance — it was now up to him to take it . |
| 15 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
| 16 | He told Labour MP Dennis Canavan that the assault cases were settled on the civil burden of proof , which had been ‘ assessed on the balance of probabilities rather than the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt . ’ |
| 17 | TWO Manchester men told Spanish judges they had nothing to do with the death of an English holidaymaker . |
| 18 | At a meeting at the White House in November 1943 , he told Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle , Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius , and others that no single airline should dominate American airline services , and favoured a sectoral distribution of routes , of which Pan American would have some of the best . |
| 19 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 20 | In eleven miles Cameron and Menzies had passed three houses — all the fewer people to betray the refugees , they told each other . |
| 21 | But when push came to shove , we blase Western correspondents told each other , the government and the party would get their way . |
| 22 | ‘ No question , ’ they told each other in educated voices , ‘ that woman 's doing her best for us . |
| 23 | They read some of his books together , and told each other stories . |
| 24 | Shemayah and Abtalion told each other ( according to the Talmudic account ) " This man deserves that the Sabbath be profaned on his behalf " ( b . |
| 25 | Usually he never bothered to talk to her in bed , but this was what real lovers did , told each other their fears and worries , confided in each other , helped each other . |
| 26 | But he then told each layer of management to appoint the layer below it . |
| 27 | Abdel Shafi told Israeli army radio on Oct. 21 that all delegates would be representatives of the PLO " in the sense that all Palestinians have allegiance to the PLO " . |
| 28 | David Burns , who heads a service in Chicago that matches athletes and advertisers , told Associated Press he had not had a single inquiry about Yamaguchi since her Olympic win , watched by one of the biggest television audiences for the Winter Games . |
| 29 | The British have to end their predetermined belief that the suspects are guilty , ’ he told Associated Press . |
| 30 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |