Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the youths seemed interested , so I told them stories of Black Magic in Sussex , a county particularly afflicted by Satan because of all the artistic people who live there , running craft shops or theatrical costumiers . |
| 2 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 3 | Jim 's leg got better and better , and he told them stories about his school . |
| 4 | We have a lot of privacies , and a lot of things until we change them , and you know why we changed it , because you went out and saw your clients and told them products and they reported you , and you came back and said but what about this , what about this ? |
| 5 | ‘ He told them things were different in England , ’ explained Constance . |
| 6 | But if she told them Nina had given her the go-ahead , and Nina discovered the lie , she would be out . |
| 7 | And he said , I told them point blank the oth last week , he said er to go to hell ! |
| 8 | He did not discuss his ordeal with Ranulf or the Prior , although he told them time and again that all was well and let them order his life , content to drift , think and reflect . |
| 9 | He told them time was running out , but it is clear Milosevic , boosted by his recent election victory , is determined to spread the war and his power . |
| 10 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 11 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 12 | Someone enquired as to the price of the SB305 whilst I was playing it ; to their great surprise I told them £395 , but I 'm sure I could have put a ‘ 1 ’ in front of that figure and it would n't have raised an eyebrow . |
| 13 | The visitor told me things about her which I did n't believe , but still I nodded my head as if to confirm what she had said . |
| 14 | To me , the wind in the tree tops really carried stories on its back ; the red bird that came to our cherry tree told me things ; the fat , velvety flowers in the forest laughed and I answered ; the little calf in the field held long conversations with me . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me things , but … |
| 16 | It told me things about life in the mills and factories I 'd never have found out for myself in a thousand years . |
| 17 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 18 | " He told me Lee was there , and Lee is … " |
| 19 | I rang Morrison and he told me Nigel had driven down to Streatley and found the body dead in bed at about quarter past eleven on Sunday night . |
| 20 | A butler , very English , the old school , told me Hauser was abroad . |
| 21 | They told me Lapointe 's sword was still in its sheath , unused . ’ |
| 22 | They told me Diniz was here . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And Lydon told me Wembley was his swansong . ’ |
| 24 | Well do doctor told me Epsom , the finest thing in the world |
| 25 | ‘ She told me Nicola was having this affair … |
| 26 | They told me Mrs Asmoyah was ‘ critical ’ — hospitals are only generous with the truth when it 's bad — and if I was her husband , father , mother or sole blood relative , I could visit her any time , but preferably after 7.0 a.m . |
| 27 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 28 | Even in the 1975 Open Roberto recognized how good Seve was , at Lytham in 1979 he told me Seve was going to win , and before the 1976 Open he said , ‘ There 's Johnny Miller , Tom Weiskopf and Seve . |
| 29 | Told me Moira F. had written to him , anxious for news about the glass , complaining that I never answered the phone , never replied to her letters , what should he tell her ? |
| 30 | ‘ You told me Zbigniew Nowak was killed in a car accident . |