Example sentences of "tell [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fallon told the 60-strong audience : ‘ That 's nonsense , I gave the figures to Hilary Armstrong . ’ |
| 2 | Georgia 's President Zviad Gamsakhurdia continued to warn of the prospect of Gorbachev attempting to impose presidential rule , and he told the Georgian Supreme Soviet on Feb. 27 that he believed that Gorbachev was preparing to detach South Ossetia and the other troubled enclave of Abkhazia from Georgia if the republic persisted in refusing to sign the new Union Treaty . |
| 3 | Mr Modrow told the Central Committee that the future government not only needed new faces . |
| 4 | He told the central committee that the new party leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , and many members of the ruling politburo were little better than the old regime . |
| 5 | The political pressures reinforcing this attitude were powerful , and Shinwell , with his eye on the working class cost of living , told the Central Authority at its first meeting that they should not charge prices higher than costs ( without , however , specifying how this was to be interpreted ) . |
| 6 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 7 | The woman thief arrived with an accomplice at the house at Camlough and told the elderly woman she was thirsty . |
| 8 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 9 | Seymour Clarke , General Manager of the Great Northern Railway , told the 1869 Parliamentary Select Committee on the transit of animals that his company sent meat from almost all the 197 stations on its lines . |
| 10 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 11 | Fagin inspected the handkerchieves and told the two boys that they were extremely well made and that he was very pleased with their work . |
| 12 | ‘ Go back , ’ he told the two grooms . |
| 13 | The judge , Andrew Brooks , told the two they would be remanded in custody till then . |
| 14 | So she went away and I never pressurised her and I told the other girls not to ask questions or anything , just to leave her . |
| 15 | Mr Onanuga told the other shop assistant a full 10 days before details of Mr Lamont 's credit card overspending were published that he personally served the Chancellor . |
| 16 | After discharging mother-of-four Jane on the sixth day of the Newcastle trial , Judge John Johnson told the other eleven jurors : ‘ It is an embarrassing position . |
| 17 | Mr Lamont told the other ministers that in speaking of fault lines he had merely meant that the British and German economies were out of phase . |
| 18 | ‘ I will not tolerate dissent , ’ said referee ‘ Jersey Joe ’ Walcott , who told the other chief offender Moin that it was time he ‘ grew up ’ . |
| 19 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
| 20 | Marius dragged me back to camp and afterwards I told the other legionnaires how she had wanted to sleep with me , but I had turned her down . |
| 21 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 22 | She told the other girls about it and they found his ignorance quaint and charming . |
| 23 | Lucien feared that if he told the other vibrancers he was working with Jeopardy , it would excite resentment among them . |
| 24 | He gave one the keys to the SSK , and told the other two to have an aircraft ready in twelve minutes . |
| 25 | Then , as she and Silvia packed up their things after their final English lesson , she told the other girl , ‘ I 'll be leaving tomorrow , just as soon as your exam is over . ’ |
| 26 | Laura told the other girl , ignoring her bark of sardonic laughter . |
| 27 | ‘ This is my office , ’ she told the other girl , adding wryly , ‘ A directorship just means that you get a share of the profits — and your name on the letterhead , of course ! ’ |
| 28 | Is my is my right honourable friend aware that yesterday the Chairman of the board of inland revenue told the private accounts committee that some five hundred and fifty million pounds of unclaimed tax still remains to be picked up by tax payers who 've been affected by the er the change in the tax regime in the last couple of years where for example women are now assessed independently . |
| 29 | She told the former : |
| 30 | ‘ Eat up , ’ I told the nearest bird . |