Example sentences of "tell of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Residents of the flats told of their shock when the bomb exploded . |
| 2 | One told of their kind offer to look after her garden while she was away and how she came back to find it stripped of all the ripe fruit and the choicest vegetables . |
| 3 | As the parents in turn told of their experiences that Wednesday morning , so attitudes changed perceptibly . |
| 4 | Yesterday presenter Christopher Frayling and producer David Wallace told of their fear as the lift plunged down the shaft after a cable snapped . |
| 5 | Two of them , John Dean and Jeb Magruder , told of their part in a cover-up , implicating each other and further members of Nixon 's intimate White House circle . |
| 6 | Back at work after four days with little sleep , doctors and nurses from the John Radcliffe Hospital told of their mercy mission . |
| 7 | Yesterday , neighbours told of their shock at the murder in their quiet road in a pleasant part of the town . |
| 8 | If successful at Darlington Health Authority , the Friends told of their aim to target Darlington engineering , construction and commercial firms for cash . |
| 9 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 10 | In her memoirs , A Vulnerable Game ( 1989 ) — which contained no hands — Markus also told of her 13-year romance with Harold Lever ( now Lord Lever ) , a minister in the Wilson Government . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 12 | John 's wife Sheila told of her shock when she woke to find a gun trained on them at their home in Bromley , Kent . |
| 13 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 14 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 15 | Some described a future Anne unmarried and unhappy , for instance , or told of her helping and subsequently marrying the second-ranked , male student . |
| 16 | One woman writing anonymously to a women 's magazine told of her distress at a particularly dehumanizing gynaecological examination . |
| 17 | After the hearing Elizabeth Lamplugh told of her own ordeal . |
| 18 | Mother Teresa told of her experience with the destitute of Calcutta . |
| 19 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 20 | Benstede , the only son of a worthy Sussex farmer , told of his vocation to the priesthood , his interest in medicine and his rapid promotion in the royal service . |
| 21 | It told of his trouble with a crew-member as the ship neared the South American port at Colombia . |
| 22 | Cowley allowed that slight grimace of disgust to touch his face that told of his total contempt for this particular villain . |
| 23 | Rock singer Roger Clinton , 36 , told of his love and respect for Democrat victor Bill as he talked about the abuse he received from his alcoholic father . |
| 24 | Roger , who said he was abused from the age of four and saw his mother Virginia regularly beaten , told of his two years in prison for selling cocaine and his former addiction to the drug . |
| 25 | He told of his sorrow at having to quit a job he passionately enjoyed . |
| 26 | One speaker , who came to talk about his hobby of flying , told of his experiences in a neighbouring group . |
| 27 | D. N. Pritt in his autobiography told of his many political cases and of one which ‘ came before a judge of great experience and knowledge , so bitterly opposed to anything left-wing that he could scarcely have given a fair trial if he had tried ’ . |
| 28 | Now 33 , Tabkay told of his gradual approach to Buddhism from his days as a student at university in Norwich . |
| 29 | Yesterday exactly a week after he suffered serious leg and arm injuries on a country road at Stillington Jason told of his nightmare which started when he was accused of seeing Pringle 's ex-girlfriend , Leanne Rees . |
| 30 | And he told of his pledge to fight the growing crime rate in Darlington by calling for stiffer sentences and more responsibility placed upon parents for offenders under 17. — Labour candidate Alan Milburn , speaking at his adoption meeting , said the Conservatives had failed Darlington . |