Example sentences of "tell [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In illustration of the absurdity of this ‘ scientific ’ arrogance , and teaching a lesson which is just as applicable today , he appeals to a story Gassendi told about a friend who watched a fight between a louse and a flea through a microscope . |
| 2 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 3 | Then I told about the tales the neighbours were telling about her Mum and her men friends . |
| 4 | So a dramatic story like the one told about the Carib is clearly not adequate : it over explains what is really a rather small difference . |
| 5 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 6 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 7 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 8 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 9 | Hawk had seen it told as a series of pictures on buffalo hides . |
| 10 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 11 | The doctor also told of a four-hour meeting with a group of Irish throwers , who asked his advice on how to improve the efficiency of their drug programme . |
| 12 | A folk tale told of a Tahitian chief , Moikeha , who sailed to Hawaii and , largely thanks to his prowess on a surfboard , married two princesses and became king of the island of Kauai . |
| 13 | Against a thumping back-beat , it told of a love affair between ‘ Harry and Johnny 's wife ’ . |
| 14 | It was so hot we lay on the floor and watched the wheeling and turning of the planes and the occasional flare-up which told of a kill . |
| 15 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 16 | The latter told of a hack TV gag writer ( Jason Robards Jr ) trying to prevent his precocious twelve-year-old nephew from being taken away from him by a Child Welfare Officer ( William Daniels ) . |
| 17 | Based on a story by Harry Nilsson , it told of a father competing with a TV set for his son 's attention . |
| 18 | At a party at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate his forthcoming 86th birthday on Christmas Day , Lord Grade told of a tricky moment during the filming of his film Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 19 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 20 | A letter to George Fox [ q.v. ] told of a call to Jerusalem , but she was dissuaded and on release went home . |
| 21 | The present owner of Miss Havisham 's house told of a fisherman she had met in Broadstairs one day who remembered ‘ Old Charley a-coming flying down from the cliff with a hop , skip and jump , with his hair all flying about ’ . |
| 22 | One story that surfaced late in 1982 told of a bold Iraqi initiative at the time . |
| 23 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 24 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 25 | For the next two letters told of an almost idyllic and peacetime existence . |
| 26 | After his death , his wife told of an occasion , when Higgins was at the height of his medical practice , and when a young woman was ‘ seized with such a violent haemorrhage that the only expedient was transfusion ’ . |
| 27 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 28 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 29 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 30 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |