Example sentences of "tell i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 2 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 3 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 4 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 5 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |
| 6 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 7 | He told me the story about where he got it — it was real interesting , and a true story — not a made-up one . |
| 8 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 9 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 10 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 11 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 12 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 13 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 14 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 16 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 17 | A fisherman unloading boxes of fish , shimmering in the arc lights of the pier , told me the next one was not until midday the following day . |
| 18 | The card told me the rest . |
| 19 | A full member of the MRS , he told me the polls understated the influence of undecided voters and he now believes he was proved right . |
| 20 | Common sense told me the news would break sooner or later , even if it was n't until my funeral , so on first being diagnosed , I had rung Clifford , with a statement to give to the press , should it become necessary , to the effect that my job was to make people forget their problems and not to talk about mine . |
| 21 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 22 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 23 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 24 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 25 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 26 | Told me the kid 's name was Henry Stych . |
| 27 | He told me the story . |
| 28 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 29 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 30 | While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story . |